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hobbyhorse
(hɒbihɔrs) also hobby-horse
Word forms: hobbyhorses
countable noun
You describe a subject or idea as your hobbyhorse if you have strong feelings on it and like talking about it whenever you have the opportunity.
Honesty is a favorite hobbyhorse for Courau.
hobbyhorse in British English
(ˈhɒbɪˌhɔːs)
noun
1.
a toy consisting of a stick with a figure of a horse's head at one end
2. another word for rocking horse
3.
a figure of a horse attached to a performer's waist in a pantomime, morris dance, etc
4.
a favourite topic or obsessive fixed idea (esp in the phrase on one's hobbyhorse)
verb
5. (intransitive) nautical
(of a vessel) to pitch violently
Word origin
C16: from hobby1, originally a small horse, hence sense 3; then generalized to apply to any pastimehobbyhorse in American English
(ˈhɑbiˌhɔrs)
noun
1.
a.
a figure of a horse attached to the waist of a person doing a morris dance so thatthe person seems to be riding it
b.
such a dancer
2.
a child's toy consisting of a stick with a horse's head at one end: it is straddledin a pretense of riding
3.
rocking horse
4.
a scheme or idea with which one is preoccupied
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Examples of 'hobbyhorse' in a sentencehobbyhorse
- terrible secret
- terrible shame
- terrible thing
- terrible tragedy
- terrible trouble
- terribly
- terricole
- terricolous
- terrier
- terries
- terrific
- terrifically
- terrified
- terrifier
- terrifies
- terrify
- terrifying
- terrifyingly
- terrifying ordeal
- terrigenous
- terrine
- territoire de belfort
- territorial
- territorial and volunteer reserve
- territorial army