| Webster's Online Dictionary |
Date "HOBEDY-HOIG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Hobedy-hoig sometimes written Hobbledchoy and hobidy-hoy, between a man and a boy; neither hay nor grass. Tusser says the third age of seven years (15 to 21) is to be kept "under Sir Hobbard de Hoy." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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