hobbit

A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.

It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had […] a little round tummy like a hobbit

A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.

An extinct species of hominin, Homo floresiensis, with a short body and relatively small brain, fossils of which have been recovered from the Indonesian island of Flores.

Although partial remains of other Hobbits have surfaced at the same site, they say it could have been an isolated colony of inbred people who shared the same genetic abnormalities.

And in the island regions of southeast Asia, where the descendants of erectus, and the Hobbit, and any similar relict populations lived, climate changes would have greatly disrupted connections between regions and populations, as sea levels rose and fell by 100 metres or more.

A socially unappealing, overly academic student.

A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds.

An old unit of volume (2+¹⁄₂ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).