Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hobby-horsey

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English

Syllables: hob-by-horsey
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Eccentrically insular or devoted to a particular topic.

Informal

Example Sentences

"'The Dalzells of Daisydown' are a hobby-horsey family who live in an old, rambling, Virginia-creeper-covered English mansion and keep up fluctuating relations with friends at Newport. Two of them fall in love with the same young lady […]"
"The reporter's insistence on your emphasis on the sub-scale of ordinary Greeks was a deliberate attempt to offset scientific observations by making them appear hobby-horsey. To provide amusement for weak, fat-ridden office workers. What does an outsider know?"

Etymology

From hobby horse + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hobby horse

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more hobby-horsey (comparative) most hobby-horsey (superlative)

Questions

What does hobby-horsey mean?: Eccentrically insular or devoted to a particular topic.
Where does hobby-horsey come from?: From hobby horse + -y.

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