Hobbledehoy

//ˈhɒbəldihɔɪ//

Synonyms for "hobbledehoy" (22 found)

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Translations

7 translations across 4 languages.

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Bulgarian

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  • дангалак noun (an awkward adolescent youth)

Polish

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  • młokos noun (an awkward adolescent youth)
  • wyrostek noun (an awkward adolescent youth)

Russian

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  • неуклю́жий подро́сток noun (an awkward adolescent youth)

Turkish

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  • toy ergen noun (an awkward adolescent youth)
  • yeni yetme noun (an awkward adolescent youth)
  • yeniyetme noun (an awkward adolescent youth)

Sample sentences

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I met a proper vpright youth, onely for a little ſtooping in the ſhoulders: […] & hee tolde me there was a fat filthy ballet-maker, that ſhould haue once been his Iourneyman to the trade: who liu’d about the towne; and ten to one, but he had thus terribly abuſed me & my Taberer: […] I found him about the bankſide, ſitting at a play, I deſired to ſpeake with him, […] Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe. I told him, & all his anger turned to laughter: ſwearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy, a habber de hoy, a chicken, a ſquib, a ſquall: […]

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[…]all the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm[…]

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A man rarely carries his shyness past the hobbledehoy period.

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Two hobbledehoys were standing by the forge staring in a bovine way at the proceedings.

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