German

Noun

Hobbit m ‎(genitive Hobbits, plural Hobbits)

1. hobbit

Declension

English

Noun

hobbit ‎(plural hobbits)

1. A fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
   • 2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 3:

     It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had […] a little round tummy like a hobbit

2. 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:

     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.

   • 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin 2012, p. 215:

     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.

Derived terms

• hobbitry

Translations

See also

• halfling

Etymology 2

Probably from hoppet, hobbet, (a basket).

Noun

hobbit ‎(plural hobbits)

1. A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds
2. (archaic) An old unit of volume (2½ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).

Norwegian

Noun

hobbit

1. hobbit

Inflection

Portuguese

Noun

hobbit m f (plural hobbits)

1. hobbit (fictional small humanoid creature)

Spanish

Noun

hobbit m ‎(plural hobbits)

1. hobbit

References

• hobbit on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es