hobbledehoy

'This is a boy, or a youth, or a lad, or a young man, or a hobbledehoy, or whatever you like to call him, of eighteen or nineteen, or thereabouts,' said Ralph.

As usual, the hobbledehoys of the city celebrated Azadi from all sorts of manners, though the more grisly Azadi from life itself, through fatal wheelies, was missing.

Hardly a man or woman with any pretensions to selfrespect could be seen at the Mop last Monday, and the thousands were composed of shouting hobbledehoys, screaming girls, drunken men and shouting women.

They were hobbledehoys, my grandmother said, riff-raff all, and what is more, respectable people did not go there, or at least, did not like to be seen going there - only the Rodneys from the Rhondda Valley.

They must play against the Hobbledehoys, headed by Coyote, the inventor of baseball.

Moreover, in Swift the "tough and lean" schoolboys are rejected as food; analogously in Lamb, porcine "hobbledehoys" are spurned.

Second, he saw that the regular army would no longer be able to serve as a source of employment for the thousands of impoverished eighteen and nineteen year olds ("hungry hobbledehoys") who usually volunteered in the midst of winter.(75) R.B.