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hobbetyhoy

hobbetyhoy 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 hobbetyhoy

pluralhobbetyhoys

Questions about hobbetyhoy

What is hobbetyhoy the alternative form of?
Hobbetyhoy is the alternative form of hobbledehoy.

Words near hobbetyhoy in the dictionary

  1. Hobbesism
  2. Hobbesist
  3. Hobbesists
  4. hobbet
  5. hobbets
  6. hobbetyhoy
  7. hobbetyhoys
  8. Hobbian
  9. Hobbie
  10. hobbies
  11. hobbing

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