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Bilbo Baggins

Bilbo Baggins noun: a dogged but unlikely hero.

Noun

Bilbo Baggins (plural Bilbo Bagginses)

  1. A dogged but unlikely hero.
    • Steve is indebted to many fisheries professionals for his inspiration and knowledge. First and foremost, the late Dr. Weldon (Larry) Larimore, as well as others at the Illinois Natural History Survey; the late Michael Sule; Dr. Michael Wiley; and Thomas Skelly. Steve's late colleague at the DNR...2025, Francis M. Veraldi, Stephen M. Pescitelli, Philip W. Willink, Fishes of the Chicago Region, University of Chicago Press
    • Josephson's impression of Lissitzky was typical. Universally welcomed, he was an instant member of the family. Short, balding, perennially sucking on his pipe, with a constant twinkle in his eye, Lissitzky comes across in memoirs as the Bilbo Baggins of his kind. Unassuming and unimposing, he was...2015, Jed Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, page 229

Examples of Bilbo Baggins in a sentence

  • And to Joel Greenburg, the Bilbo Baggins of the Chicago Region2025, Francis M. Veraldi, Stephen M. Pescitelli, Philip W. Willink, Fishes of the Chicago Region, University of Chicago Press:
  • Short, balding, perennially sucking on his pipe, with a constant twinkle in his eye, Lissitzky comes across in memoirs as the Bilbo Baggins of his kind.2015, Jed Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, page 229:

Forms of Bilbo Baggins

pluralBilbo Bagginses

Origin of Bilbo Baggins

From the character in the Lord of the Rings series.

Questions about Bilbo Baggins

What does Bilbo Baggins mean?
Bilbo Baggins means a dogged but unlikely hero.
How do you use Bilbo Baggins in a sentence?
And to Joel Greenburg, the Bilbo Baggins of the Chicago Region
What part of speech is Bilbo Baggins?
Bilbo Baggins is a noun.
What is the plural of Bilbo Baggins?
The plural of Bilbo Baggins is Bilbo Bagginses.

Words near Bilbo Baggins in the dictionary

  1. bilberry
  2. bilberrying
  3. bilbie
  4. bilbies
  5. bilbo
  6. Bilbo Baggins
  7. bilboe
  8. bilboes
  9. Bilboesque
  10. bilboquet
  11. bilboquets

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