Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./US) a boy.

1934		Detective Fiction Weekly (US) 21 Apr. in DU (1949).
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks n.p.: Pride and joy, a boy.
1938		X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) 65: It was Frank, son of the widow McLash, or her Pride and Joy as she called him.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1960		J. Franklyn Dict. Rhy. Sl.
1972		Dodson & Saczek Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl.