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hobbit
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As a noun, hobbit means a member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
Meanings of hobbit
5 meaningsnoun
A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
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.
A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds
An imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkienperson
Older and rare meanings (1)
archaicAn old unit of volume (2 1⁄2 bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).