hankin booby en · NOUN
Meanings
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A kind of English folk dance performed in a circle, or its associated tune.
Wyth, ‘Troll, cytrace, and trovy,’ They rangyd Hankyn Bovy My churche all abowte.
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: