Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for a variant of Ride a cock horse, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse. Children played at riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end.
From the term "hobby horse" came the expression "to ride one's hobby-horse", meaning "to follow a favourite pastime", and in turn, the modern sense of the term hobby. [59] The term is also connected to the draisine, a forerunner of the bicycle, invented by Baron Karl von Drais. In 1818, a London coach-maker named Denis Johnson began producing ...
A homemade sock monkey wearing a fez and scarf. A sock monkey is a stuffed toy made from socks fashioned in the likeness of a monkey. These stuffed animals are a mixture of folk art and kitsch in the cultures of the United States [1] and Canada. The typical sock monkey is brown and white with extra long limbs, a long tail and bright red lips.
A stuffed toy is a toy doll with an outer fabric sewn from a textile and stuffed with flexible material. They are known by many names, such as plush toys , plushies , lovies , stuffed animals , and stuffies ; in Britain and Australia, they may also be called soft toys or cuddly toys .
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The mini horse, known as "such a little miracle boy" and "the world's spicy small stallion," has a lot to say in those kicks, and he's not afraid to show it. Many of the rescue's followers agreed ...
Monchhichi was created by Yoshiharu Washino (ワシの良春 (わしの よしはる)) on January 25, 1974, as an improvement to the already successful Kuta Kuta Monkey (くたくたモンキー) (Exhausted monkey). Sekiguchi claims they created these characters in order to inspire respect and love in the young (Japanese) children and adults ...
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.