Definition of "hobbledehoyhood" []

• The period of time of being a hobbledehoy; awkward adolescence (noun)

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• "In truth his hobbledehoyhood was dropping off from him, as its old skin drops from a snake."
• "But he was young — hardly as yet out of his hobbledehoyhood — and he would easily recover this blow, remembering, and perhaps feeling to his advantage, some slight touch of its passing romance."
• "He was conscious of his hobbledehoyhood-of that backwardness on his part in assuming manhood which had rendered him incapable of making himself acceptable to Lily before she had fallen into the clutches of"