Hobbarddehoy vs Hobbledehoy - What's the difference?
hobbarddehoy | hobbledehoy | Alternative forms |
An awkward adolescent boy.
*1836 , Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club ,
*1886 , Jerome K Jerome,
*:A man rarely carries his shyness past the hobbledehoy period.
*1895 , H G Wells,
*1895 , Hardy, Jude the Obscure ,
*:And though it do take—how many years, Bob?—five years to turn a lirruping hobble-de-hoy chap into a solemn preaching man with no corrupt passions, they'll do it, if it can be done [...]
*1912 ,
*:He was a fair boy, with round pink cheeks, with his hair parted on one side, and a shade of down on his lip. He looked frankly what he was — a hobbledehoy — though he made great efforts to seem grown up.
Hobbarddehoy is an alternative form of hobbledehoy.
As nouns the difference between hobbarddehoy and hobbledehoy
is that hobbarddehoy is while hobbledehoy is an awkward adolescent boy.hobbledehoy
English
Alternative forms
* hobbarddehoy * hobbedehoy * hobbetyhoy * hobbletehoy * hobdehoy * hobble-dehoy * hobble-de-hoyNoun
(en noun)- [...] all the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm [...]
- Two hobbledehoys were standing by the forge staring in a bovine way at the proceedings.