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hobnailed, a.|ˈhɒbneɪld|
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
1. Furnished or set with hobnails; having the marks of hobnails.
1603B. Jonson Satyr Wks. (Rtldg.) 538/2 Come on, clowns..bestir your hob-nail'd stumps. 1693Dryden Juvenal's Sat. iii. 399 Some rogue-soldier, with his hob-nail'd shoes, Indents his legs behind in bloody rows. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe viii. (1894) 175 The vocal music played on the planks by a pair of sturdy hobnailed boots.
b. hobnailed liver: a cirrhotic liver, studded with projections like nail-heads.
1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 711 [The liver] presents what is termed a hobnailed appearance. 1886Standard 19 Jan. 3/5 He found a large patch of cirrhosis, commonly known as hobnailed liver.
2. transf. Rustic, boorish, clownish.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 62 The hobnaylde houses of their carterly ancestrie. 1683Kennett Erasm. on Folly (Reeves) 33 The hob-nailed suiter prefers Joan the milkmaid before any of my lady's daughters. 1839H. Rogers Ess. II. iii. 135 Our national proverbs..the manual and vade-mecum of ‘hobnailed’ philosophy. |