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Etymology

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hobby +‎ -like

Adjective

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hobbylike (comparative more hobbylike, superlative most hobbylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a hobby (interest).
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      With the lifting of his “depression,” he’d developed a new interest, hobbylike in its intensity, in framable and collectible railroad memorabilia, and he could happily have spent the whole day—the whole week!—pursuing it. . .

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