Hobby
['hɒbɪ] or ['hɑbi]
Definition
(noun.) small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds.
(noun.) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride.
Inputed by Augustine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.
(n.) Alt. of Hobbyhorse
Editor: Nell
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hobby-horse.[2]. Favorite object, favorite pursuit.
Checker: Zelig
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Limp, falter
ANT:Bun, course, speed, leap
Editor: Rosalie
Definition
n. a small species of falcon.
n. a strong active horse: a pacing horse: a subject on which one is constantly setting off as in 'to ride' or 'to mount a hobby:' a favourite pursuit.—n. Hobb′y-horse a stick or figure of a horse on which boys ride: one of the chief parts played in the ancient morris-dance: (Shak.) a term of contempt for a loose and frivolous person male or female.—adj. Hobb′y-hor′sical having a hobby: eccentric.—ns. Hobb′yism; Hobb′yist one who rides a hobby.—adj. Hobb′yless.
Typist: Michael
Examples
- Well, a taste for society's just another kind of hobby. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was of mechanical turn of mind, with an intense hobby for painful accuracy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I thought the most expensive hobby in the world was standing for Parliament, said Mrs. Cadwallader. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was also named the Dandy and the Hobby Horse. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The hobby he had at the time I was there, says Edison, was the aging of raw whiskey by passing strong electric currents through it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Why, yes, my dear, it was quite your hobby to draw plans. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have no hobby besides. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That's your hobby, and you don't mind the expense. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My own hobby has always been nervous disease. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Fisher's latest hobby was municipal reform. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Hobbies are apt to ran away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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