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hobbardehoy

hobbardehoy is the alternative form of hobbledehoy.

Meaning of hobbledehoy

Noun

hobbledehoy (plural hobbledehoys)

  1. 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...1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder

Forms of hobbardehoy

pluralhobbardehoys

Questions about hobbardehoy

What is hobbardehoy the alternative form of?
Hobbardehoy is the alternative form of hobbledehoy.

Words near hobbardehoy in the dictionary

  1. Hobb
  2. hobbadehoy
  3. hobbadehoys
  4. hobbarddehoy
  5. hobbarddehoys
  6. hobbardehoy
  7. hobbardehoys
  8. hobbed
  9. hobbedehoy
  10. hobbedehoys
  11. hobbel

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