Hobbledehoy

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  • noun. A gawky adolescent boy.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A stripling; a youth in the half-formed age preceding manhood; a raw, awkward youth.
  • noun. A large unmanageable top.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow .
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An awkward adolescent boy.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy
    • Word Usage
    "When Grandpa wasn’t a grandpa and was just instead a small-fry, hobbledehoy boy blowing out thirteen dripping candles on a lopsided cake, his savvy hit him hard and suddenjust like it did to fish that day of the backyard birthday party and the hurricaneand the entire state of Idaho got made."
    Equivalent
    hobbletehoy  
    Form
    hobbledehoyhood  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    spring chicken  young person  younker  youth  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ape-men  asempt  babylike  beanpole  bleeding-edge  
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