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Frodo Baggins

Frodo Baggins noun: a hero, especially one who seems small or unassuming or one who begins acting heroically later in life.

Noun

Frodo Baggins (plural Frodo Bagginses)

  1. A hero, especially one who seems small or unassuming or one who begins acting heroically later in life.
    • For instance, in the Wallabiez team in Sinapsi (Milan) a big visible chart is used, where every day a different person is nominated the "Frodo of the Pomodoro", i.e. the bearer of the timer who is responsible for loading it and tracking: this allowed to the team to realize they were much less...2008, 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008, Proceedings, edited by Brian Fitzgerald, Kieran Conboy, Lorraine Morgan, Pekka Abrahamsson, Richard Baskerville...
    • It is my belief that Krishnamacharya did eventually train his massive intellect upon the Yoga Sutra, and that the highly sophisticated "Vine" did originate with him—but that he did not come to Patanjali's work until relatively late in life, during his Chennai years; that is, at about the same time...2019, David Gordon White, The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography, Princeton University Press, page 223

Examples of Frodo Baggins in a sentence

  • I seriously doubt, how-ever, that he was ever the Frodo Baggins of modern Yoga that his biographers have made him out to be.2019, David Gordon White, The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography, Princeton University Press, page 223:
  • The Frodo Baggins of our time, R2-D2 proved that even the smallest of us can change the world2018, George Beahm, The Military Science of Star Wars, Tor Publishing Group:

Forms of Frodo Baggins

pluralFrodo Bagginses
alternative formFrodo

Origin of Frodo Baggins

From the character in the Lord of the Rings series.

Questions about Frodo Baggins

What does Frodo Baggins mean?
Frodo Baggins means a hero, especially one who seems small or unassuming or one who begins acting heroically later in life.
How do you use Frodo Baggins in a sentence?
I seriously doubt, how-ever, that he was ever the Frodo Baggins of modern Yoga that his biographers have made him out to be.
What part of speech is Frodo Baggins?
Frodo Baggins is a noun.
What is the plural of Frodo Baggins?
The plural of Frodo Baggins is Frodo Bagginses.

Words near Frodo Baggins in the dictionary

  1. frocks
  2. Froderberg
  3. Froderbergs
  4. Frodingham
  5. Frodo
  6. Frodo Baggins
  7. Frodoesque
  8. Frodsham
  9. froe
  10. Froebel
  11. Froebelian

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