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Hobbledehoy

Hobbledehoy Meaning & Definition
Hobbledehoy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hobbledehoy?

[n] an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy

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See Also | spring chicken | young person | younker | youth

Hobbledehoy In Webster's Dictionary

\Hob"ble*de*hoy`\, Hobbletehoy \Hob"ble*te*hoy`\, n. [Written also {hobbetyhoy}, {hobbarddehoy}, {hobbedehoy}, {hobdehoy}.] [ Cf. Prob. E. hobbledygee with a limping movement; also F. hobereau, a country squire, E. hobby, and OF. hoi to-day; perh. the orig. sense was, an upstart of to-day.] A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [Colloq.] All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. --Dickens. .

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