hobbit
A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feetA member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
» Eight hobbits form one hobbyte.
Acht Hobbits bilden ein Hobbyte. — BraveSentry
Восемь хоббитов составляют один хоббайт. — Balamax
Вісім гобітів складають один гобайт. — deniko
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6 sensesA member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
Hobbit
хо́ббитxóbbit
гобітhobit
A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
(humorous)A person of short stature.
An extinct species of hominin, Homo floresiensis, with a short body and relatively small brain, fossils of which have been recovered from the Indonesian island of Flores.
(US, slang, uncommon)A socially unappealing, overly academic student.
A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds.
(archaic)An old unit of volume (2+¹⁄₂ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).
- an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien
Examples
4 sentencesEight hobbits form one hobbyte.
Вісім гобітів складають один гобайт. — deniko
ruВосемь хоббитов составляют один хоббайт. — Balamax
deAcht Hobbits bilden ein Hobbyte. — BraveSentry
Sauron wants every hobbit to fear him.
ruСаурон хочет, чтобы каждый хоббит его боялся. — las
deSauron möchte, dass ihn jeder Hobbit fürchtet. — ieflicca
Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the Hobbit, stood at around 1.1 metres.
ruРост Homo floresiensis, прозванного хоббитом, составлял около 1,1 метра. — Wezel
The Misty Mountains are no place for a hobbit.
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Origin
Coined in its current sense by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s, featured in the novels The HCoined in its current sense by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s, featured in the novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Jocularly etymologized by him as from a hypothetical Old English *holbytla (literally “hole-builder”), from hol (“hole”) + bytlan (“to build”) + -a (“-er”). Tolkien was possibly influenced by similar terms for house-sprites (probably from Hob, a hypocoristic form of Robert), or an isolated mention of hobbits (with hobgoblins following immediately afterwards) in a list of sprites and bogies from the 19th-century Denham Tracts.
Probably from hoppet, hobbet (“basket”).
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