hobbledehoy

n. 青少年, (笨拙的)小伙子

发音

US /ˈhɒbəldihɔɪ/
其它

词形变化

hobbledehoys 复数 hobbledehoys

别名

hobbadehoy hobbarddehoy hobbardehoy hobbedehoy hobbetyhoy hobble-de-hoy hobble-dehoy hobbletehoy hobdehoy hoberdehoy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An awkward adolescent youth.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

youth spring chicken younker

词源

From Scots. Compare dialectal English hobbledygee (“(with a) limping movement”); also French hobereau (“country squire”), English hobby, and Old French hoi (“today”); the original sense may have been "an upstart of today".

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