hobby-horsey
hobby-horsey adjective: eccentrically insular or devoted to a particular topic.
Adjective
hobby-horsey (comparative more hobby-horsey, superlative most hobby-horsey)
- Eccentrically insular or devoted to a particular topic.
- '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 […]1891, The Critic, volume 18, page 28
- 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?1999, Stanley Elkin, Boswell: A Modern Comedy, page 59
Forms of hobby-horsey
| comparative | more hobby-horsey |
|---|---|
| superlative | most hobby-horsey |
Origin of hobby-horsey
From hobby horse + -y.
Questions about hobby-horsey
- What does hobby-horsey mean?
- Hobby-horsey means eccentrically insular or devoted to a particular topic.
- What part of speech is hobby-horsey?
- Hobby-horsey is an adjective.
Words near hobby-horsey in the dictionary
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