hobbitesque
English
Etymology
From hobbit + -esque. Piecewise doublet of hobbitish.
Adjective
hobbitesque (comparative more hobbitesque, superlative most hobbitesque)
- 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.