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hobbled
(encz) | hobbled,belhal se Zdeněk Brož |
hobbled
(encz) | hobbled,kulhal v: Zdeněk Brož |
Hobbled
(gcide) | Hobble \Hob"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hobbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hobbling.] [OE. hobelen, hoblen, freq. of hoppen to hop;
akin to D. hobbelen, hoblen, hoppeln. See Hop to jump, and
cf. Hopple ]
1. To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a
hitch or hop, or with crutches.
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The friar was hobbling the same way too. --Dryden.
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2. To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in
writing. --Prior.
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The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
--Jeffreys.
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hobbled
(encz) | hobbled,belhal se Zdeněk Brožhobbled,kulhal v: Zdeněk Brož |
hobbledehoy
(encz) | hobbledehoy,holobrádek n: Zdeněk Brož |
Hobbledehoy
(gcide) | Hobbledehoy \Hob"ble*de*hoy`\, Hobbletehoy \Hob"ble*te*hoy`\, n.
[Written also hobbetyhoy, hobbarddehoy, hobbedehoy,
hobdehoy.] [ Cf. Prob. E. hobbledygee with a limping
movement; also F. hobereau, a country squire, E. hobby, and
OF. hoi to-day; perh. the orig. sense was, an upstart of
to-day.]
A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow .
[Colloq.]
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All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the
farm. --Dickens. .
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hobbledehoy
(wn) | hobbledehoy
n 1: an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy |
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