Definition of Hobbish

1. clownish [adj] - See also: clownish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hobbish

hob
hob-nailed
hob-nob
hobbarddehoy
hobbarddehoys
hobbardehoy
hobbardehoys
hobbed
hobbedehoy
hobbedehoys
hobber
hobbers
hobbetyhoy
hobbies
hobbing
hobbish (current term)
hobbism
hobbist
hobbit
hobbitlike
hobbitry
hobbits
hobbitses
hobbity
hobble
hobble-bush
hobble-bushes
hobble skirt
hobble skirts
hobblebush

Literary usage of Hobbish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... Bentley was again appointed to preach the Boyle Lecture : * Misled by Dr Monk, (who, though citing the passage from Bentley's Letten about tlie HobbisH, ..."

2. Essays and Marginalia by Hartley Coleridge (1851)
"But I believe his Toryism to have been a natural emanation of his hobbish infidelity, though in this age when infidelity affects democracy, and blackguards ..."

3. The Book of Table-talk by Charles MacFarlane, James Robinson Planché (1836)
"... shall never be discouraged or broken betweene us. Now to the making of lawes which wee have now * Divine right again ! Hal is quite Homeric and hobbish. ..."

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