Talk:hobbledehoy

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Hobbledehoy is an old Scots word for an awkward rustic adolescent boy or teenager. A hobbledehoy is naïve, gawky, and shy around women. He is neither a boy nor a man, and so is also called a halflin. The root word hob is also used to describe the little men of fairy tales, like hobs, hobgoblins, and hobyahs.

The Hobbit (in a book by Tolkien) is a 3 foot tall man, half the height of a 6 foot man, and therefore a halfling. In Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, a tall gawky school master, is described as a hobbledehoy in a song, referring to his awkwardness.

RFD discussion: April 2023

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Talk:hobbledehoy

The page has been speedy'd as being "useless". Not sure how a Talk page can be useless here. CitationsFreak: Accessed 2023/01/01 (talk) 05:12, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Do not delete Agreed, no reason to delete. Talk pages can and should be deleted if they are sheer nonsense or have personal information on them, etc., but this is not that. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:36, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

• Keep. I've seen talk pages much less useful than this. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 07:48, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

• Kept It is probably (talk) 16:35, 15 April 2023 (UTC)