Associations to the word «Hobbit»
Noun
Wiktionary
HOBBIT, noun. A fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
HOBBIT, noun. 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.
HOBBIT, noun. A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds
HOBBIT, noun. (archaic) An old unit of volume (2½ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).
Dictionary definition
HOBBIT, noun. An imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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