hobbledehoyish love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a hobbledehoy.

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  • Shop-girls (the type of young woman she knew well) and hobbledehoyish youths, the latter clad in "reach-me-down" frockcoat suits, high collars, and small, ready-made bow ties, thronged about her.

    Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

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