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Hobbledehoy

noun
(Written also hobbetyhoy, hobbarddehoy, hobbedehoy, hobdehoy)
1.
An awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy.





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... France, the fairest, the most ill-starred; I had fought and conquered shoulder to shoulder with her sons. A soldier, a noble, of the proudest and bravest race in Europe, it had been left to the prattle of a hobbledehoy lackey in an English chaise to recall me ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


Words linked to "Hobbledehoy" :   young person, youth, younker, spring chicken


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