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hobdehoy

hobdehoy 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 hobdehoy

pluralhobdehoys

Questions about hobdehoy

What is hobdehoy the alternative form of?
Hobdehoy is the alternative form of hobbledehoy.

Words near hobdehoy in the dictionary

  1. Hobbys Yards
  2. hobday
  3. hobdayed
  4. hobdaying
  5. hobdays
  6. hobdehoy
  7. hobdehoys
  8. Hobdy
  9. Hobdys
  10. Hobe Sound
  11. Hobei

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