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Meaning of hobby-horse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Alternative spelling of hobby horse.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“The discordant minstrelsy of every kind renewed its din; the boys shrieked and howled, and the men laughed and halloed, and the women giggled and screamed, and the beasts roared, and the dragon wallopp’d and hissed, and the hobby-horse neighed, pranced, and capered, and the rest⟳ frisked and frolicked, clashing their hob-nailed shoes against the pavement, till it sparkled with the marks of their energetic caprioles.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

hobby, interest hobbycraft Hobbyhorse hobbyism Hobbyist Hobbyists

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