You scobberlotching raggabrash, stampcrabbing scallywag, you cream-faced
loon. You rank spoony ninnyhammer, chuckle-headed sponger, you skin-wasting
cumberworld, you cow-handed whiffle-whaffle, dew-beating dalcop, galumphing
quisby, loiter-sacking lubberwort.

This unreliable young man is a large, clumsy chap who does little work, has little intelligence, and does not pay his own way through life.

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Janet Oates (b. 1970), "A most irksome hobbadehoy", 2019 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from !, no. 1
      Score: Janet Oates [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2026-08-23
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