hankin booby

English

A kind of English folk dance performed in a circle, or its associated tune.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 116–118:
  Wyth, ‘Troll, cytrace, and trovy,’
  They rangyd Hankyn Bovy
  My churche all abowte.