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hobble-dehoy

hobble-dehoy 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 hobble-dehoy

pluralhobble-dehoys

Questions about hobble-dehoy

What is hobble-dehoy the alternative form of?
Hobble-dehoy is the alternative form of hobbledehoy.

Words near hobble-dehoy in the dictionary

  1. hobble-bushes
  2. hobble-chain
  3. hobble-chains
  4. hobble-de-hoy
  5. hobble-de-hoys
  6. hobble-dehoy
  7. hobble-dehoys
  8. hobble-rope
  9. hobble-ropes
  10. hobble-skirted
  11. hobblebush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hobble-dehoy (page history and authors); hobbledehoy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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