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Today's Word "hobbledehoy"

Awkward or gawky young fellow on

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hobbledehoy \HOB-uhl-dee-hoy\ (noun) - An awkward, gawky young fellow.

"His memories, even only reveries, of incomparable women, made me feel like a hulking hobbledehoy." -- Edith Anderson, 'Love in Exile'

 

The origin of hobbledehoy is unknown, though it perhaps derives from hobble, from the awkward movements of a clumsy adolescent.


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