Hobby vs Hobbit - What's the difference?
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An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
(horses) An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the
Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco'', especially ''Falco subbuteo .
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 323:
A fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
* 2008 , , Falling Sideways , Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 3:
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.
* 2007 September 20, Christopher Joyce, “Case Grows for ‘Hobbit’ as Human Ancestor”, All Things Considered , National Public Radio:
* 2011 , (Chris Stringer), The Origin of Our Species , Penguin 2012, p. 215:
A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds
(archaic) An old unit of volume (2½ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).
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As nouns the difference between hobby and hobbit
is that hobby is an activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time while hobbit is a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.As a proper noun Hobby
is {{surname|A=An|English|from=given names}.hobby
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (hobby-horse), from (etyl) hoby, hobyn, . The meaning of hobby-horse shifted from "small horse, pony" to "child's toy riding horse" to "favorite pastime or avocation" with the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere". Possibly originally from a proper name for a horse, a diminutive of (Robert) or (Robin) (compare (dobbin)).Noun
(wikipedia hobby) (hobbies)- I like to collect stamps from different countries as a hobby .
Synonyms
* (activity done for enjoyment in spare time ): avocation, pastimeDerived terms
* hobbyistEtymology 2
From (etyl) hobet, from , diminutive of (hobe).Noun
(hobbies)- He hawked – from nearby Esher, Richard Fox sent a servant with a hobby , which Henry received enthusiastically – and hunted, sending a present of freshly slaughtered deer to Princess Mary.
Derived terms
* (African hobby), Falco cuvierii * (Australian hobby), Falco longipennis * (Eurasian hobby), Falco subbuteo * (Oriental hobby), Falco severushobbit
English
(Encyclopedic etymology) (wikipedia hobbit)Etymology 1
The word hobbit has an unknown origin. However, as designating a diminutive legendary creature, it fits seamlessly into a category of English words in hob- for such beings. The Middle English word hobbe has manifested in many creatures of folklore as the prefix hob-. Related words are : hob, hobby, hobgoblin, Hobberdy Dick, Hobberdy, Hobbaty, hobbidy, Hobley, hobbledehoy, hobble, hobi, hobyn (small horse), hobby horse (perhaps from Hobin), Hobin (variant of the name Robin), Hobby (nickname for Robert), hobyah, Hob Lantern. The only source known today that makes reference to hobbits in any sort of historical context is the Denham Tracts by Michael Aislabie Denham. More specifically, it appears in the Denham Tracts, edited by James Hardy, (London: Folklore Society, 1895), vol. 2, the second part of a two-volume set compiled from Denham's publications between 1846 and 1859. The text contains a long list of sprites and bogies, based on an older list, the Discovery of Witchcraft, dated 1584, with many additions and a few repetitions. The term hobbit is listed in the context of boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies. The most famous use comes from in 1937, featuring in the novels The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. Ostensibly from a hypothetical (etyl) ''*holbytla "hole-builder".Noun
(en noun)- It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had a little round tummy like a hobbit
- Although partial remains of other Hobbits have surfaced at the same site, they say it could have been an isolated colony of inbred people who shared the same genetic abnormalities.
- And in the island regions of southeast Asia, where the descendants of erectus , and the Hobbit , and any similar relict populations lived, climate changes would have greatly disrupted connections between regions and populations, as sea levels rose and fell by 100 metres or more.
