hobbledehoy
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hobbledehoy
- /ˈhɒbəldihɔɪ/ US
Where it comes from
From Scots. Compare dialectal English hobbledygee (“(with a) limping movement”); also French hobereau (“country squire”), English hobby, and Old French hoi (“today”); the original sense may have been "an upstart of today".
noun hobbledehoys
- An awkward adolescent youth. I met a proper vpright youth, onely for a little ſtooping in the ſhoulders: […] & hee tolde me there was a fat filthy ballet-maker, that ſhould haue once been his Iourneyman to the trade: who liu’d about the towne; and ten to one, but he had thus terribly abuſed me & my Taberer: […] I found him abou
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noun an awkward adolescent youth
| Русский | неуклю́жий подро́сток neukljúžij podróstok |
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title = {hobbledehoy},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hobbledehoy},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
