Definitions
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- noun A fictional
race ofsmall humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet. - noun by extension A member of any race of small
humans orhominids . - noun A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh
pecks , or 168pounds - noun archaic An old unit of volume (2½
bushels , the volume of 168 pounds ofwheat ).
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- noun an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Examples
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Bilbo is 50 at the beginning of The Hobbit, and 50 in hobbit years is roughly early 30s in human years.
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And the new version of a hobbit is tall, hairyless feet and bald???
Second Full Trailer for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Merlkir: any ideas about the talking wargs? the wargs in hobbit are remarkably different from the "hyena" ones in the Lord of the Rings movies ..
Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Chat Hobbit With Fans « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Would you post a comment asking who the heck said a hobbit is supposed to be smaller than a dwarf and have hairy feet?!?!?!?
Second Full Trailer for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight « FirstShowing.net 2008
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That no-chinned hobbit is music executive Jordan Bratman, and he gives hope to all ugly guys throughout the universe.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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If you think of modern humans and Neanderthals as being first cousins, then the hobbit is more like a second cousin to both, Tocheri said.
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Not only did they pull off an immensely difficult logistical task, they also managed to attract and please three very different target audiences: mainstream folks who wouldn't know a hobbit from a bantha, hardcore Tolkien fans that were prepared to comb through every frame of film in search of the tiniest deviation from their Holy Texts, and critics who generally frown on anything that doesn't involve grainy photography, trailer park settings, or subtitles.
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We've all learned about that famous hobbit from the immortal renditioning of the indomitable Leonard Nimoy (aka Mr. Spock).
Oh Shat! Book II Peter 2004
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We've all learned about that famous hobbit from the immortal renditioning of the indomitable Leonard Nimoy (aka Mr. Spock).
April 2004 2004
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Not only did they pull off an immensely difficult logistical task, they also managed to attract and please three very different target audiences: mainstream folks who wouldn't know a hobbit from a bantha, hardcore Tolkien fans that were prepared to comb through every frame of film in search of the tiniest deviation from their Holy Texts, and critics who generally frown on anything that doesn't involve grainy photography, trailer park settings, or subtitles.
alphyns commented on the word hobbit
2. Informal name sometimes given to Homo Floresiensis (since 2004).
September 9, 2009
alexz commented on the word hobbit
Found 'hobbit' for weight on page 131
http://books.google.ca/books?id=ADAwAAAAIAAJ
English reports in law and equity: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1855
"A sale of wheat took place at a price per hobbit It appeared that the hobbit was a term used in Wales to express a quantity consisting of four pecks each peck weighing forty two pounds and that the wheat in question had been delivered to the purchaser in sacks containing six pecks or 252 pounds and the custom was so to deliver it the sacks on such occasions being weighed and the quantity in each sack increased or reduced to 252 pounds "
February 26, 2013