Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
- n. by extension A member of any race of small humans or hominids.
- n. A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds
- n. archaic An old unit of volume (2½ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).
WordNet 3.0
- n. an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien
Etymologies
- Probably from hoppet, hobbet, (a basket). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Bilbo is 50 at the beginning of The Hobbit, and 50 in hobbit years is roughly early 30s in human years.”
“And the new version of a hobbit is tall, hairyless feet and bald???”
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“Would you post a comment asking who the heck said a hobbit is supposed to be smaller than a dwarf and have hairy feet?!?!?!?”
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“Merlkir: any ideas about the talking wargs? the wargs in hobbit are remarkably different from the "hyena" ones in the Lord of the Rings movies ..”
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“That no-chinned hobbit is music executive Jordan Bratman, and he gives hope to all ugly guys throughout the universe.”
“If you think of modern humans and Neanderthals as being first cousins, then the hobbit is more like a second cousin to both, Tocheri said.”
“Not only did they pull off an immensely difficult logistical task, they also managed to attract and please three very different target audiences: mainstream folks who wouldn't know a hobbit from a bantha, hardcore Tolkien fans that were prepared to comb through every frame of film in search of the tiniest deviation from their Holy Texts, and critics who generally frown on anything that doesn't involve grainy photography, trailer park settings, or subtitles.”
“We've all learned about that famous hobbit from the immortal renditioning of the indomitable Leonard Nimoy (aka Mr. Spock).”
“The origin of the word hobbit was by most forgotten.”
“It's tempting to wonder how many other "hobbit"-like species might await discovery . . . and if any of them made the evolutionary cut before we did.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hobbit’.
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supernatural creatures according to M...
Turned this up on etymonline.com (link). It's amazing.
Hobbit (n.)
1937, coined in the fantasy tales of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole...ghost, boggle, bloody-bones, spirit, demon, ignis fatuus, brownie, bugbear, black dog, specter, shellycoat, scarecrow and 186 more...
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Hobs
hob, hobby, hobbyhorse, hobnob, hobanob, hob and nob, Hob Collingwood, hobble, Calvin and Hobbes, hobbledygee, Hobby-lanthorn, hobbit and 41 more...
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A List of Mythical Proportions
All of these things exist, I swear!
unicorn, pegasus, cyclops, yeti, abominable snowman, bigfoot, phoenix, thunderbird, sea serpent, ogre, grue, troll and 138 more...
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Favorite Tangible Object Words
Trimming the "Chained Bear's Favorites" list so I don't crash people's computers... like my own...
castanets, whaup, budgie, wallabies, ring-wraith, hobbit, chinchilla, guano, merganser, phalarope, phalarope, curlew and 138 more...
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Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Scriptie: The Two Towers
dampen, treacherous, black gate, man-flesh, precious, elvish, dwarf, pursuit, quarry, hobbit, sprinters, horse lords and 236 more...
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Inner B
Words with the letter b within the word, not just as the initial or last letter.
remember, maybe, able, unable, nimble, cable, reusable, thimble, cymbal, capable, tremble, enable and 143 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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Scriptie: The Fellowship of the Ring
the world is changed, much that once wa..., great rings, immortal, dwarf lords, miners, craftsmen, three, seven, nine, deceived, dark lord and 216 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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mad the wordie
words that I like
sparsile, inchoate, asparagus, dendrochronology, primifluous, psalloid, cetacean, roots, birches, spires, mythopeia, intricate and 167 more...
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Other
brouhaha, pulchritude, laudanum, orotund, leviathan, inimical, ephemeral, quiescence, exhort, nemoral, inculcate, cacotopia and 125 more...
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mshund's Words
illicit, insidious, epicenter, vapid, incalculable, hobbit, futbol, intangible, immolate, unfortunate, desirable, treble and 11 more...
Tweets
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alexz Found 'hobbit' for weight on page 131
http://books.google.ca/books?id=ADAwAAAAIAAJ
English reports in law and equity: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1855
"A sale of wheat took place at a price per hobbit It appeared that the hobbit was a term used in Wales to express a quantity consisting of four pecks each peck weighing forty two pounds and that the wheat in question had been delivered to the purchaser in sacks containing six pecks or 252 pounds and the custom was so to deliver it the sacks on such occasions being weighed and the quantity in each sack increased or reduced to 252 pounds " Feb 26, 2013
alphyns 2. Informal name sometimes given to Homo Floresiensis (since 2004). Sep 9, 2009