hobby

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɒ.bi/    美 /ˈhɑ.bi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
    — I like to collect stamps from different countries as a hobby.
  2. Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco, especially Falco subbuteo.
    — He hawked – from nearby Esher, Richard Fox sent a servant with a hobby, which Henry received enthusiastically – and hunted, sending a present of freshly slaughtered deer to Princess Mary.
  3. An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby.
    — I was out a-hunting to-day, and I got away to a place in the wood I’d never seen before. And there was an old chalk-pit. And I heard a kind of a sort of humming. So I got off my hobby, and I went right quiet to the pit, and I looked down.
  4. Synonym of hobby horse (“a favorite topic”).
    — "Well, I think East is right," said Arthur; "I can't see but what it's right to do the best you can, though it mayn't be the best absolutely. Every man isn't born to be a martyr." "Of course, of course," said East; "but he's on one of his pet hobbies. — How often have I told you, Tom, that you must drive a nail where it'll go."

词形变化

hobbies plural hobbies plural

词汇关系

近义词
pastime amusement diversion divertisement fancy hobby kill-time pursuit sport
反义词
work
上位词
activity leisure
下位词
amateur radio arctophily ballooning birdkeeping bird-nesting birdspotting cartophily collecting conchology congoing crosswording DXing fishkeeping gaming groundhopping ham radio lepidoptery letterboxing metal detecting phillumeny piphilology planespotting quilting retrocomputing retrogaming roadgeeking scripophily spelunking stamp collecting SWLing tegestology train spotting
衍生词
hobby bobby hobbycraft hobby desk hobby farm hobby fuse hobby horse hobbyism hobbyist hobby knife hobbyless hobbylike hobby table Irish hobby ride a hobby
相关词
hobbyhorse hobelar hobeler dilettantism game

词源

词源 1
Shortened from hobby-horse, from Middle English hoby, hobyn, hobin (“small horse, pony”), from Old French hobi, *haubi, haubby, hobin ("a nag, hobby"; > Modern French aubin, Italian ubino), of Germanic origin: from Old French hober, ober (“to stir, move”), from Old Dutch hobben (“to toss, move up and down”); or from North Germanic origin related to Danish hoppe (“a mare”), Old Swedish hoppa (“a young mare”), North Frisian hoppe (“horse”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend; a bend, joint”). More at hop, hobble.
The meaning of hobby-horse shifted from "small horse, pony" to "child's toy riding horse" to "favorite pastime or avocation" with the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere". Possibly originally from a proper name for a horse, a diminutive of Robert or Robin (compare dobbin).
词源 2
From Middle English hoby, hobeye, from Old French hobé, hobei, hobet, from Medieval Latin hopētus, diminutive of harpe.
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