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hobbledehoy

hobb·le·de·hoy

US/ˈhɒbəldihɔɪ/ uncommon

noun

1.

an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy

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".

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