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hobbledehoy

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɒbəldihɔɪ/Part of speech nounSorted bbdeehhlooyStarts with HEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy

Word origin

From Scots. Compare dialectal English hobbledygee (“(with a) limping movement”); also French hobereau (“country squire”), English hobby, and Old French hoi (“today”); the original sense may have been "an upstart of today".

Used in a sentence

  • […]all the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm[…]
  • A man rarely carries his shyness past the hobbledehoy period.
  • Two hobbledehoys were standing by the forge staring in a bovine way at the proceedings.

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