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Definition of Hobbledehoys
1. hobbledehoy [n] - See also: hobbledehoy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hobbledehoys
Literary usage of Hobbledehoys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"Some of them were armed with cudgels or boat-stretchers ; not a few with improvised
pikes or with cutlasses. The hobbledehoys of the alleys mustered strong ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Good heavens, Danby! what could you be thinking about to bring us such morsels
of humanity ?" "We wanted children," said Danby, "not hobbledehoys. ..."
3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1903)
"Under the railway-arch a cluster of dejected hobbledehoys stopped him and broke
the news. ... The hobbledehoys quailed before the child's white anger. ..."
4. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"Good heavens, Danby! what could you be thinking about to bring us such morsels
of humanity ?" "We wanted children," said Danby, "not hobbledehoys. ..."
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