Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hobbledehoy

Hobbledehoy , noun

[ Compare Probably English hobbledygee with a limping movement; also French hobereau, a country squire, English hobby, and Old French hoi to-day; perh. the orig. sense was, an upstart of to-day.]

A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow. [Colloquial]
All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. — Dickens.

Also: Hobbletehoy