Hobbyhorsical

Hob`by`hors´ic`al

Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Across one end of our orchard flows a pretty little brook buddling [sic] and babbling thro a small romantic dingle to empty itself into the Wye; in which with hobbyhorsical industry I have built a cascade of 8 or 9 feet height & am making a rude hermitage (a sequestered summer study) in the dingle beneath.

Citizen Juan Thelwall: in the footsteps of a free-range radical

As a result, enthusiasm for these hobbyhorsical technologies has waned, as both the results and implications of such techniques proved to be largely disappointing.

A chemist's progress

We need not hunt after monstrous Telescopes, unless it be in the true hobbyhorsical spirit, for the sake of the Pleasure arising from the Trouble of using them.