Hobbledehoy
[HA-bəl-dee-hoy]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Unknown, mid-16th century
1.
A clumsy or awkward youth.
Examples of Hobbledehoy in a sentence
"I felt like a real hobbledehoy at my first job."
"Now that Jennifer's braces were off, she was ready to leave behind her days of being a hobbledehoy."
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