hobby-horsey

English

Etymology

From hobby horse +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

hobby-horsey (comparative more hobby-horsey, superlative most hobby-horsey)

  1. (informal, idiomatic) Eccentrically insular or devoted to a particular topic.
    • 1891, The Critic (volume 18, page 28)
      '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 […]
    • 1999, Stanley Elkin, Boswell: A Modern Comedy (page 59)
      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?
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