Mackerel snapper topic Mackerel snapper  was once a sectarian slur for Roman Catholics , originating in the United States in the 1850s. It referred to the Catholic discipline of Friday abstinence from red meat and poultry, for which fish was substituted.
Follow @TIMECulture. Admit it: you were pronouncing the word âSmaugâ â the name of the Hobbit dragon, the one whoâs in the subtitle of the upcoming movie installation â as âsmog.â.
Homo floresiensis ( Flores Man ; nicknamed  hobbit  and Flo) is an extinct species widely believed to be in the genus Homo.omo floresiensis was unveiled on 28 October 2004, and was swiftly nicknamed the Hobbit, after the fictional race popularized in J. R. R. Tolkien 's book The Hobbit, and a proposed scientific name for the species was Homo hobbitus.