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  1. Etymology [ edit] (Can this (+) etymology be sourced ?) From Scots. Compare dialectal English hobbledygee (“(with a) limping movement”); also French hobereau (“country squire”), English hobby, and Old French hoi (“today”); the original sense may have been "an upstart of today".
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    The form has naturally suggested a French origin. Jamieson held that ‘ hoberdehoy has been undoubtedly borrowed from the French’, and suggested, for first part, French hobereau, hobreau hobby (the hawk), also ‘petit gentilhomme campagnard’ (Littré), according to Dict. Trévoux, ‘also applied to those who are apprentices or novices in the world’.
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    It may well be related to Hoberdidance or Hobbididance, which was the name of a malevolent sprite associated with the Morris dance (and whose name is from Hob, an old name for the Devil; nothing to do with hobbits). It may also be linked to hobidy-booby, an old English dialect word for a scarecrow.
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    Origin of hobbledehoy 1 1530–40; variant of hoberdyhoy, alliterative compound, equivalent to hoberd (variant of Roberd Robert) + -y 2 + -hoy for boy (b > h for alliteration; see hob 2)
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