hobbit
n. （英国作家J R R Tolkien笔下的）
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释义与例句
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A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
霍比特人
哈比人
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A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
A person of short stature.
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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.
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.
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A socially unappealing, overly academic student.
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A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds.
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An old unit of volume (2+¹⁄₂ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).
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Coined 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.
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