hobbitesque

English

Etymology

From hobbit +‎ -esque. Piecewise doublet of hobbitish.

Adjective

hobbitesque (comparative more hobbitesque, superlative most hobbitesque)

  1. Resembling hobbits (small fictional humanoid) or their homes built into the sides of hills.
    Synonyms: hobbitish, hobbitlike, hobbity
    • 2005, Dan Dagget, Gardeners of Eden: Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature, Thatcher Charitable Trust, page 97:
      This lack of a new generation of these Hobbitesque living sculptures becomes more serious as the older ones die or are removed for whatever reason and are not replaced.
    • 2008, Ecoescape: Ireland, Markham Publishing, page 30:
      The separate entrance to the bedrooms is hobbitesque. It leads to four rooms, all leading in turn to a mystical spiral staircase.
    • 2015, T.R. Richmond, What She Left, Penguin Books, page 300:
      It [Homo floresiensis] dominated conversation at our little bash: how this hobbitesque species could have existed as recently as 12,000 years ago, their skeletons like Homo erectus, but their bodies and brains tiny.

Usage notes

  • Sometimes capitalised.