Definitions for: Hobbledehoy

[n] an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy

Webster (1913) Definition: Hob"ble*de*hoy`, Hobbletehoy Hob"ble*te*hoy`, n.
[Written also hobbetyhoy, hobbarddehoy, hobbedehoy,
hobdehoy.] [ Cf. Prob. E. hobbledygee with a limping
movement; also F. hobereau, a country squire, E. hobby, and
OF. hoi to-day; perh. the orig. sense was, an upstart of
to-day.]
A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow .
[Colloq.]

All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the
farm. --Dickens. .

See Also: spring chicken, young person, younker, youth

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