Meaning and background
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Hobbit refers to the small, usually peaceful fictional people in J. R. R. Tolkien's stories. The term entered modern popular culture with The Hobbit, published in 1937, and is associated with the Shire and characters such as Bilbo Baggins. As a dog name it is a literary allusion, not an inherited Old English given name with an independently established literal translation. Its familiar spoken form has two syllables.
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About Hobbit
Recorded as a dog’s name
Hobbit appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/hɑbɪt/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/hɑbɪt/ · primary stress on syllable 1HH AA1 B IH0 T
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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