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hobbyist

noun
/ˈhɒb.ɪ.ɪst/UK/ˈhɑb.i.ɪst/CA

Etymology

From hobby + -ist.

  1. derived from *kewb-✻
  2. derived from *huppōną✻
  3. derived from hobben
  4. derived from hober
  5. derived from hobi
  6. derived from hoby
  7. suffixed as hobbyist — “hobby + ist”

Definitions

  1. A person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.

    • This computer magazine is targeted at both professionals and hobbyists.

  2. A client in a girlfriend experience.

    • In other words, a hobbyist wants to feel special, like he is the provider's boyfriend. This interest in extra-sexual experiences by men who frequent prostitutes is well known (Stein 41; Bernstein 126).

The neighborhood

Derived

hobbyistic, jihobbyist, nonhobbyist

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hobbyist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA