hobbledehoy
An awkward adolescent youth.
[…]all the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm[…]
Where it comes from
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".
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry hobbledehoy (CC BY-SA 4.0).