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hobbletehoy

hobbletehoy is the archaic 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 hobbletehoy

pluralhobbletehoys

Questions about hobbletehoy

What is hobbletehoy the archaic form of?
Hobbletehoy is the archaic form of hobbledehoy.

Words near hobbletehoy in the dictionary

  1. hobbles
  2. hobbleshaw
  3. hobbleshaws
  4. hobblesome
  5. hobblet
  6. hobbletehoy
  7. hobbletehoys
  8. hobbling
  9. hobblingly
  10. hobblings
  11. hobbly

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