hobbledehoy-looking

Updated: May 28, 2025

It was a hot, windless day, and the bird was by himself among the tall flowering grasses and buttercups of the meadow a queer gaunt unfinished hobbledehoy-looking fowl with a head much too big for his body, a beak that resembled a huge nose, and a very monstrous mouth.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - Afoot in England