Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or having a hobby-horse; eccentric.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical.
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- adjective colloquial Pertaining to, or having, a
hobby orwhim ;eccentric ;whimsical .
Etymologies
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hobby horse + -ical
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Examples
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Many studies in Geistesgeschichte, Weltanschauung, and milieu have been superficially attractive, but too often they are presumptuous or “hobbyhorsical” in the pursuit of parallels (R. Wellek [1942], and R. Cohen [1964], Ch. IV).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN GRAHAM 1968
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_maroquin rouge dentellé_ or _aux petits fers_ from some pre-revolutionary workshop he is hobbyhorsical to a pathetic extent.
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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