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Definition: Hobbyhorse |
HobbyhorseNoun1. A topic to which on constantly reverts: "don't get him started on his hobbyhorse". 2. A child's plaything consisting of an imitation horsehead on one end of a stick; the child straddles it an pretends to ride. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hobbyhorse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: HobbyhorseSynonyms: cockhorse (n), hobby (n), rocking horse (n), stick horse (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vehicle | Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Paul Mellon, residence in Upperville, Virginia. Hobbyhorse. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Hobbyhorse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hobbyhorse" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hobbyhorse | 14 |
clothing hobbyhorse | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hobbyhorse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | temë e preferuar, kalë druri kolovitës, avaz i përhershëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | صورة فرس, رأس فرس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | конче (foal, gee-gee, nag), любима тема, идея фикс (fixation, monomania, obsession). (various references) | |
Czech | hùl s koòskou hlavou pro dìti (hobby horse). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسخره (Clown, Dult, Fool, Irony, Jeer, Mockery, Mower, Rustic, Sikt, Spoof, Witticism, Zany), کارتفریحی , لوده (Buffoon, Clown, Fool, Zany), سرگرمی (Avocation, Diversion, Fun, Game, Hobby, Pastime, Recreation, Sport, Toy), اسب چوبی . (various references) | |
French | tête de cheval, dada, cheval bascule (rocking horse). (various references) | |
German | Steckenpferd (hobby, hobby horse, nag, pony). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תחביב (fad, hobby), סוס " "" (rocking horse), ושא א"וב. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hintaló (chamber horse, hobby horse, rocking horse), vesszőparipa (fad, whim, whimsy), faló (hobby horse). (various references) | |
Italian | chiodo fisso. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obbyhorsehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cavalo de madeira. (various references) | |
Russian | чеглок, конь-качалка (rocking horse), конек (crease, fancy, ice skate, pipit, ridge, skate, titlark), лошадка (gee, hobby, horsy), палочка с головой лошади. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drveni konjić (hobby horse). (various references) | |
Swedish | gunghäst (rocking horse). (various references) | |
Turkish | takıntı (bee, hangup, idee fixe, obsession), sabit fikir (bee, crank, fixed idea, idee fixe, monomania, obsession), oyuncak at (cockhorse), dönüp dolaşıp gelinen konu, atlıkarınca atı, at başlı değnek. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | dada. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hobbyhorse": hobbyhorses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-h-h-o-o-r-s-y" | |
-3 letters: yobboes. | |
-4 letters: hoboes, hooeys, horsey, sobber, yobbos. | |
-5 letters: boobs, booby, boors, bores, boyos, broos, brose, brosy, byres, herbs, herby, heros, hobby, hobos, hoers, hooey, horse, horsy, obeys, oboes, oyers, robes, roose, shoer, shore, shyer, sober, sooey, yobbo, yores. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-h-h-o-o-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: hobbyhorses. | |
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