hobbitesqueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

hobbitesque (comparative more hobbitesque, superlative most hobbitesque)

1. 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.

使用する際の注意点

• Sometimes capitalised.