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informal, datedA clumsy or awkward youth.
- ‘It listed the views of various members of Congress: not any old hobbledehoys either, but the party leaders, mostly Republican, whose support would be crucial to the political viability of any Pentagon plan.’
- ‘The true hobbledehoy is much alone, not being greatly given to social intercourse even with other hobbledehoys.’
- ‘He looked frankly what he was - a hobbledehoy - though he made great efforts to seem grown up.’
lout, boor, barbarian, Neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel
adjective
informal, datedAwkward or clumsy.
‘his hobbledehoy hands’
Origin
Mid 16th century of unknown origin.
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