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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun hobbledehoy has 1 senses

   hobbledehoy(n = noun.person) - an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy;
is a kind of
spring chicken, young person, younker, youth


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

hobbledehoy, n. [ Cf. Prob. E. hobbledygee with a limping movement; also F. hobereau, a country squire, E. hobby, and OF. hoi to-day; perh. the orig. sense was, an upstart of to-day.].

   A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [1913 Webster]
"All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm." [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

hobbledehoy, n. colloq.
1 a clumsy or awkward youth.
2 a hooligan.

Etymology:
16th c.: orig. unkn.


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Infant

N  infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.