"Tom Bombadil" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the character in the Lord of the Rings series.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Tom Bombadils",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2018, Jonathan Kruk, Legends and Lore of the Hudson Highlands, Arcadia Publishing:",
          "text": "Today's determined Appalachian trekkers and day-tripping city folk on meetups appreciating Anthony's Nose, Bear Mountain, Breakneck, Storm King need to tip their hats and toast to the \"Tom Bombadil of the Hudson Highlands,\" William Thompson Howell.",
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          "ref": "2020, Richard Landes, Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College, Academic Studies Press:",
          "text": "The only non-tenured faculty member who stood up to the pressure to sign his department's statement was Jeffrey Strabone, Professor of English, a remarkably individuated figure (the Tom Bombadil of the tale), who was not subject to the peer pressure that had so many other \"cats\" toeing the line.\" Most faculty signed just assuming that they, like everyone else, were doing the right thing.",
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          "ref": "2025, Heath Hardesty, Jon Tyson, All Things Together: How Apprenticeship to Jesus Is the Way of Flourishing in a Fragmented World, PRH Christian Publishing:",
          "text": "Don Pape, for hearing unheard voices, for unyielding ad-vocacy, and for your bright mirth. You are the Tom Bombadil of literary agents.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A jolly and eccentric individual."
      ],
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          "eccentric"
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      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Lord of the Rings"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tom Bombadil"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the character in the Lord of the Rings series.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Tom Bombadils",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "English eponyms",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Tolkien's legendarium",
        "English terms derived from fiction",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Fictional characters"
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          "ref": "2018, Jonathan Kruk, Legends and Lore of the Hudson Highlands, Arcadia Publishing:",
          "text": "Today's determined Appalachian trekkers and day-tripping city folk on meetups appreciating Anthony's Nose, Bear Mountain, Breakneck, Storm King need to tip their hats and toast to the \"Tom Bombadil of the Hudson Highlands,\" William Thompson Howell.",
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          "ref": "2020, Richard Landes, Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College, Academic Studies Press:",
          "text": "The only non-tenured faculty member who stood up to the pressure to sign his department's statement was Jeffrey Strabone, Professor of English, a remarkably individuated figure (the Tom Bombadil of the tale), who was not subject to the peer pressure that had so many other \"cats\" toeing the line.\" Most faculty signed just assuming that they, like everyone else, were doing the right thing.",
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        },
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            [
              103,
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          ],
          "ref": "2025, Heath Hardesty, Jon Tyson, All Things Together: How Apprenticeship to Jesus Is the Way of Flourishing in a Fragmented World, PRH Christian Publishing:",
          "text": "Don Pape, for hearing unheard voices, for unyielding ad-vocacy, and for your bright mirth. You are the Tom Bombadil of literary agents.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A jolly and eccentric individual."
      ],
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          "eccentric",
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      ]
    }
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}