Hŏb'ble-de-hoy' or Hŏb'ble-te-hoy', n.

n. [Written also hobbettyhoy, hobberdehoy. Cf. Prov. Eng. hobbledeygee, with a limping movement. See HOBBLE.] A stripling; a boy between fourteen and twenty-one. [Colloq.]

Auntie would fain become a mother, and, in order thereunto, a wife, and waylays a hobbletehoy. Prof. Wilson.