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hobbit
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hobbit has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hobbit, n. a member of an imaginary race of half-sized people in stories by Tolkien.
Derivative
hobbitry n.
Etymology
invented by J. R. R. Tolkien, Engl. writer d. 1973, and said by him to mean 'hole-dweller'
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