Hobbledehoy Definition

hŏbəl-dē-hoi
hobbledehoys
noun
A boy or adolescent youth, esp. one who is awkward and gawky.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Hobbledehoy

Noun

Singular:
hobbledehoy
Plural:
hobbledehoys

Origin of Hobbledehoy

  • 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".

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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