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Weekend diversion
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hobby
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. 2 (context horses English) An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Hobby Etymology 2 n. Any of four species of ...
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Hobby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Marmaduke Hobby (1836–1881), American merchant, politician, and poet, and Confederate States of America military officer James H. Hobby (1835–1882), United States Navy officer for whom ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., hobyn , "small horse, pony," later "mock horse used in the morris dance," and c.1550 "child's toy riding horse," which led to hobby-horse in a transferred sense of "favorite pastime or avocation," first recorded 1670s, shortened to hobby by 1816. ...
Usage examples of hobby.
My parents, to their credit, allowed me the full indulgence of my hobby, although my mother often worried about germs and fire from the kerosene I used to degrease the bones.
It delights those who recollect Bradley when they read his canonization as a philanthropist whose hobby was giving the rich a little divertisement denied them by the state of Florida.
Attired in a fluffy dressing gown, Sheila appeared at the door of the music parlor, where Durand was amusing himself with his favorite hobby.
Soon Ruth Fawcett was telling him about her work and her training and her childhood and her hobbies and her friends, and in fact everything about herself except her all-consuming love for Mr.
This is only a twisted hobby of mine and I will gleen no profit from its likes.
Roncesvalles and La Gloire awhile, and, instead of riding a war horse, canter along upon the hobby, or a good serviceable Canadian pony, the best of all hobbies for seeing the Canadian world, and on which mettlesome charger we can much better instruct the emigrant than by long prosings about political economy and systematic colonisation.
The political scientist and nerve specialist, torture was said to be one of his hobbies watched the dance with an evil smile on his knobbly face.
He therefore spent generously on Latchetts and on the horses that were his hobby.
Cooke line in the matter of household decoration, unless it was that he considered Mohair his own, private hobby, and that she humored him.
Anyone with a sense of self-preservation would fear Mordell and his unusual hobbies.
When Duke Nitral ascended the throne there, he decided to indulge his hobby.
He is believed to be one of the greatest living numismatologists, and he has given his life to his hobby.
Probyn Pybus was a philatelist, but with Sir Probyn philately was rather the hobby of a man who had spent his life in acquiring material things, and who was nearing the end of his possibilities.
Formerly a nursing assistant and phlebotomist, writing has been a longtime hobby.
To find why the jar said these things, I studied phonics, statistics -- at first it was a hobby.