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hobbedehoy

hobbedehoy 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 hobbedehoy

pluralhobbedehoys

Questions about hobbedehoy

What is hobbedehoy the alternative form of?
Hobbedehoy is the alternative form of hobbledehoy.

Words near hobbedehoy in the dictionary

  1. hobbarddehoy
  2. hobbarddehoys
  3. hobbardehoy
  4. hobbardehoys
  5. hobbed
  6. hobbedehoy
  7. hobbedehoys
  8. hobbel
  9. hobbels
  10. hobber
  11. hobber-nob

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