2. (colloquial).—A rantipole girl; a wench; a wanton.

1594. Shakspeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, iii., 1. Call’st thou my

love hobby-horse? Moth. No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt,

and your love, perhaps a hackney.

1604. Shakspeare, Winter’s Tale, 1., 2. They say my wife’s a

hobby-horse.