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Hobbledehoy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOB'BLEDEHOY, n. A cant phrase for a boy at the age of puberty.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1540 an awkward gawky youth

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. colloq. 1 a clumsy or awkward youth. 2 a hooligan. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hobbledehoy 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. .