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English

Etymology 1

Coined in its current sense by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s, featured in the novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Jocularly etymologized by him as from a hypothetical Old English *holb?tla (literally “hole-builder”). Tolkien was possibly influenced by similar terms for house-sprites (probably from Hob, a hypocoristic form of Robert), or an isolated mention of hobbits (with hobgoblins following immediately afterwards) in a list of sprites and bogies from the 19th-century Denham Tracts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?b?t/, [-??]

Noun

hobbit (plural hobbits or (humorous) hobbitses)

1. A fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
   • 2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books, ?ISBN, p. 3:

     It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had […] a little round tummy like a hobbit

   Synonym: halfling

2. An extinct species of hominin, Homo floresiensis, with a short body and relatively small brain, fossils of which have been recovered from the Indonesian island of Flores.
   • 2007 September 20, Christopher Joyce, “Case Grows for ‘Hobbit’ as Human Ancestor”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:

     Although partial remains of other Hobbits have surfaced at the same site, they say it could have been an isolated colony of inbred people who shared the same genetic abnormalities.

   • 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin 2012, p. 215:

     And in the island regions of southeast Asia, where the descendants of erectus, and the Hobbit, and any similar relict populations lived, climate changes would have greatly disrupted connections between regions and populations, as sea levels rose and fell by 100 metres or more.

Derived terms

• hobbitic
• hobbitish
• hobbitlike
• hobbitry
• hobbity

Translations

See also

• halfling

Etymology 2

Probably from hoppet, hobbet (“basket”).

Noun

hobbit (plural hobbits)

1. A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds
2. (archaic) An old unit of volume (2+¹?₂ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hob?it]
• Hyphenation: hob?bit
• Rhymes: -it

Etymology 1

hobbi +? -t

Noun

hobbit

1. accusative singular of hobbi

Etymology 2

From English hobbit.

Noun

hobbit (plural hobbitok)

1. hobbit (a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet)

   Synonym: (the name of this creature in a different translation) babó

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Coined by J.R.R. Tolkien

Noun

hobbit ? (plural hobbit)

1. hobbit

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Coined by J.R.R. Tolkien

Noun

hobbit m (definite singular hobbiten, indefinite plural hobbiter, definite plural hobbitene)

1. a hobbit

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Coined by J.R.R. Tolkien

Noun

hobbit m (definite singular hobbiten, indefinite plural hobbitar, definite plural hobbitane)

1. a hobbit

Polish

Etymology

From English hobbit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?b.b?it/

Noun

hobbit m anim (feminine hobbitka) or hobbit m pers

1. hobbit (fictional small humanoid creature)

Declension

or

Further reading

• hobbit in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• hobbit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

hobbit m, f (plural hobbits)

1. hobbit (fictional small humanoid creature)

Spanish

Noun

hobbit m (plural hobbits)

1. (fantasy) hobbit

References

• hobbit on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

From Middle English impen, ympen (“to plant; (figuratively) to bury; to graft; to add to, insert, put into, set in; to mend (a falcon’s feather) by attaching a new feather on to the broken stump”), from Old English impian, ?eimpian (“to graft”), from Proto-West Germanic *imp?n (“to graft”), from Vulgar Latin *imput? (“to graft”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (émphutos, “implanted; planted”), from ?????? (emphú?, “to implant”) (from ??- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in’) + ???? (phú?, “to bring forth, produce; to grow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to appear; to become; to grow”))) + -??? (-tos).

Verb

imp (third-person singular simple present imps, present participle imping, simple past and past participle imped) (transitive)

1. (obsolete) To engraft or plant (a plant or part of one, a sapling, etc.).
2. (figuratively, archaic) To graft or implant (something other than a plant); to fix or set (something) in.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.9:

     That headlesse tyrants tronke he reard from ground, / And, having ympt the head to it agayne, / Upon his usuall beast it firmely bound, / And made it so to ride as it alive was found.

3. (falconry)
   1. To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird's wing or tail.
   2. To engraft (a bird, or bird's wing or tail) with feathers.
   3. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with wings, hence enabling them or it to soar.
      • 1633, George Herbert, "Easter Wings"

        With thee / Let me combine, / And feel this day thy victory / For, if I imp my wing on thine, / Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

4. (by extension) To add to or unite with (something) another object to lengthen it out or repair it; to eke out, enlarge, strengthen.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English impe, ympe (“tree branch; shoot, sprig; graft, scion; young tree, sapling, seedling; tree”) [and other forms], from Old English impa, impe (“shoot, sprig; graft, scion; young tree, sapling, seedling”), from impian, ?eimpian (“to graft”) (see etymology 1).

Noun

imp (plural imps)

1. (chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2). [from 16th c.]
   • 1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel:

     Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray / Of squabbling imps […]
2. (by extension)
   1. (often humorous) A mischievous child. [from 17th c.]

      Synonyms: brat, little dickens, scamp, urchin

      • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

        I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist...

   2. A baby Tasmanian devil.
3. (obsolete)
   1. A young shoot of a plant, a tree, etc.; a sapling; also, a part of a plant used for grafting; a graft. [9th–18th c.]
      • 14th c., Sir Orfeo, 69:

        Þai sett hem doun al þre / Vnder a fair ympe-tre.

      • 1571, Arthur Golding, The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries, “Epistle Dedicatorie,”^[1]

        Out of these rootes spring other impes, no lesse perniciouse than the stockes of whiche they come […]

   2. An offspring or scion, especially of a noble family; (generally) a (usually male) child; a (young) man. [15th–19th c.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:

        And thou most dreaded impe of highest Ioue, / Faire Venus sonne, [...] come to mine ayde [...].

      • The tender imp was weaned from the teat.

   3. (Britain, dialectal) Something added to or united with another to lengthen it out or repair it (such as an eke or small stand on which a beehive is placed, or a length of twisted hair in a fishing line).

Derived terms

• impish
• impishly
• implike
• impishness

Translations

References

Further reading

• imp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IPM, MIP, MPI, PIM, PMI