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Definition of Hobbyhorse
1. Noun. A topic to which one constantly reverts. "Don't get him started on his hobbyhorse"
2. Noun. A child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride.
Definition of Hobbyhorse
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of hobby horse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hobbyhorse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hobbyhorse
Literary usage of Hobbyhorse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"How they become the morris, with whose bells They ring all into Whitsun ales,
and swear Through twenty scarfs and napkins, till the hobbyhorse Tire, ..."
2. The Field Reader by Walter Taylor Field (1921)
"I HAD A LITTLE hobbyhorse I had a little hobbyhorse And it was dapple-gray; Its
head was made of pea straw, Its tail was made of hay. ..."
3. A Topographical History of Staffordshire: Including Its Agriculture, Mines by William Pitt (1817)
"A remarkable custom, called the hobbyhorse Dance, is mentioned by Dr. Plot, as
having existed in this town within the memory of many persons alive at the ..."
4. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1813)
"This practice seems to have existed at other places besides Abbot's Bromley; for
we find hobbyhorse money frequently mentioned in the old parish books, ..."
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