Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hobbledehoy .
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- noun Alternative form of
hobbledehoy .
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Examples
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There is the chubby babe, six feet high; the fast-growing 'hobbedehoy;' the adult, bending away from you like a man, or, woman-like, inclining towards you; there is the bald, shrunken senior; and, lastly, appears death, lean and cold and dry.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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And as for deportment, Madame Cécile, why there is more propriety, in that hobbedehoy, at least, more blushing in him, than in all the bread-and-butter misses in the county! "
The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889
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