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hobbledehoy

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Noun
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hob=ble=de=hoy

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun hobbledehoy has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

hobbledehoyn. [ 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 .  [1913 Webster]
    "All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hobbledehoy, n. colloq.
1 a clumsy or awkward youth.
2 a hooligan.

Etymology
16th c.: orig. unkn.

ROGET THESAURUS

hobbledehoy

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.

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