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hobbledehoys

hobbledehoys is the plural 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

Questions about hobbledehoys

What is hobbledehoys the plural of?
Hobbledehoys is the plural of hobbledehoy.

Words near hobbledehoys in the dictionary

  1. hobbledehoydom
  2. hobbledehoyhood
  3. hobbledehoyish
  4. hobbledehoyishness
  5. hobbledehoyism
  6. hobbledehoys
  7. hobbler
  8. hobblerope
  9. hobbleropes
  10. hobblers
  11. hobbles

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