QUOTES WITH «HOBBLEDEHOYISH»
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOBBLEDEHOYISH»
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Prob. hob (see above) + some now indeterminable ending—perhaps Fr. de haie,
de haye, of the hedge (see hedge)—with -le- (rare before 1700) or -a(r)-, - e(r)-,
acting as a euphonic. hobbledehoyish; hobbledehoyhood. Awkwardly youthful ...
... was a slim, delicate youth. dressed in a vest and several drawers of a pale
mauve, who spoke French perfectly, talked to me of the Fenians, of foreign travel,
and of his own prospects, with much inteligence, and no spark of hobbledehoyish
I.
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A Winter with the Swallows
... delicate youth, dressed in vest and several drawers of pale mauve, who spoke
French perfectly, talked to me of the Fenians, of foreign travel, and of his own
prospects with much intelligence and no spark of hobbledehoyish
embarrassment.
Matilda Betham-Edwards, 1867
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The Letters of John Keats: Volume 1, 1814-1818: 1814-1821
... imaginable,” he writes “flat trivialities,” he is “jocose without being in the least
witty or amusing,” he has “an incontinent gushiness which is neither manly nor
properly boy-like, but simply hobbledehoyish. And Cockney vulgarity,
unfortunately, ...
Hyder Edward Rollins, 2012
Ellen Pickering. as yourself, you will not succeed ; for I am resolved to have
another laugh at Ernest Dudley, that most amiable gobemouche. You could not
seem more horrified if it were he himself. How he used to look his
hobbledehoyish love ...
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Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable ...
I might have been a bit of a harum-scarum in my hobbledehoyish days per.- haps
, but where is the watch whose materials were not one time scattered over a dirty
shop-board ? " Our next-door neighbour — we resided in Liverpool — was a Mr.
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Essays, political and miscellaneous
It must not be impudent and callous, or haughty and hobbledehoyish and ill-bred,
or vain and grotesque and conceited, adding ridicule to ridicule. Of course it is
very easy for any one to pretend to say what people's conduct under such and ...
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The fright by the author of 'The heiress.' 3 vols
Ellen Pickering. as yourself, you will not succeed ; for I am resolved to have
another laugh at Ernest Dudley, that most amiable gobemouche. You could not
seem more horrified if it were he himself. Mow he used to look his
hobbledehoyish love ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOBBLEDEHOYISH»
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From Glyndebourne to St Thomas's Hospital
He would have been a good hobbledehoyish Masetto. His successor would have twisted round the minx's finger even faster than usual. «Spectator.co.uk, Aug 14»
First Chapter 'Alphabet Juice'
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. «New York Times, Nov 08»
