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HOBBLEDEHOY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hobbledehoy mean?
• HOBBLEDEHOY (noun)
The noun HOBBLEDEHOY has 1 sense:
1. an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy
Familiarity information: HOBBLEDEHOY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("hobbledehoy" is a kind of...):
spring chicken; young person; younker; youth (a young person (especially a young man or boy))
Context examples
Besides, the best have to get through the hobbledehoy age, and that's the very time they need most patience and kindness.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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