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Encyclopedia Britannica



HOBBY

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 552 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HOBBY , a small
horse
 , probably from early quotations, of Irish breed, trained to an easy gait so that riding was not fatiguing. The common use of the word is for a favourite pursuit or occupation, with the
idea
  either of excessive devotion or of
absence
  of ulterior
motive
  or of profit, &c., outside the occupation itself. This use is probably not derived from the easy ambling gait of the Irish " hobby," but from the " hobby-
horse
 ," the mock horse of the old morris-dances, made of a painted wooden horse's head and tail, with a framework casing for an actor's
body
 , his legs being covered by a
cloth
  made to represent the " housings " of the medieval tilting-horse. A hobby or hobby-horse is thus a toy, a diversion. 'The O. Fr. hobin, or hohi, Mod. aubin, and Ital. ubina are probably adaptations of the
English
 , according to the New
English
  Dictionary. The O. Fr. hober, to move, which is often taken to be the origin of all these words, is the source of a use of " hobby " for a small
kind
  of falcon, falco subbuteo, used in hawking.


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