Today's Word "hobbledehoy"
Published in Vocabulary
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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