hobbit
The origin and history of hobbit.
Etymology
Invented by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s for his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; he later joked it might come from an imagined Old English word meaning "hole-dweller".
Class of 1930
hobbit first entered the language around 1930. Other words from the same year:
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