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单词 hob-nob
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hob-nobn.

Etymology: formed as hob-nob phr. and adv. As a noun more usual in the condensed form.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhob-nob.
1. A ‘sentiment’ or phrase used in hob-nobbing.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > other specific types of phrase
et cetera1600
chreia1612
inn-phrase1631
hob-nob1761
phraseograph1847
snapper1857
humilific1892
frame1943
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking to each other or toasting > a toast
wassailc1275
proface1586
pledge1594
carouse1599
fathom health1600
skol1600
health1602
pitcher-praise1654
toast1746
hob-nob1761
loyal toast1799
salamander1868
ganbei1940
1761 (title) The Masque: a new and select collection of the best English, Scotch, and Irish Songs..To which is added a complete collection of the various Toasts, Sentiments, and Hob-Nobs.
1770 (title) Toasts, Sentiments, Hob-nobs and Songs: The Company Keeper's Assistant.
2. A drinking to each other or together.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking to each other or toasting
pledging1538
skolinga1599
wassail1598
healthing1628
propination1656
hob or nob1756
hob-nobbing1795
hob-noba1814
α.
a1814 J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. viii. 132 When hob or nob was first introduced, on a young gentleman calling for wine a second time during dinner, George whispered him, ‘Sir, you have had a glass already’.
1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 71 At the end of the repast, a general ‘choque’, or hob-or-nob took place.
β. 1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. II. xii. 537 Pril and wril was an ancient form of hob nob.
3. A familiar conversation; a tête-à-tête.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > private conversation
sunder-roundingOE
roundingOE
sunder-speechOE
sunder-rounc1175
tête-à-tête1697
closeting1762
hob-nob1876
head-to-head1884
pillow talk1914
1876 W. Black Madcap Violet xviii Sitting on a fence, having a quiet hobnob among themselves.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

hob-nobv.

Etymology: At first hob or nob , hob-a-nob , hob and nob , hob-and-nob (one or both verbs inflected), from the adverbial phrase: see hob-nob n. 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhob-nob.
1. intransitive. To drink to each other, drink together.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > drink toasts or healths
hailc1275
to drink (a person's) hailc1325
to drink good lucka1529
pledge1546
carouse1583
skola1599
to drink off (or eat) candle-ends1600
health1628
to begin to a person1629
bumper1691
toast1699
to drink hob or nob, hob a nob1756
hob-nob1763
hobber-nob1800
to look towards (a person)1833
propine1887
ganbei1940
α.
1763 Brit. Mag. 4 117 Do I go to hob or nob in white-wine, I am probably told red, is better for my nerves.
1794 J. Wolcot Acad. Process. in Wks. (1812) III. 278 Deserts, for common serving-men, the room, And hobs or nobs with Ladies of the Broom.
1801 M. G. Lewis Giles Jollup in Tales of Wonder i A Doctor so prim and a sempstress so tight Hob-a-nobb'd in some right marasquin.
1805 Sporting Mag. 26 148 Watch the eye of him who wishes to hob or nob.
1823 W. H. Pyne Wine & Walnuts (1824) II. x. 163 ‘Here's my hearty service to you, and let us hob and nob.’
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 23 We hobbed and nobbed with..the celebrated bailiff of Chancery Lane.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine viii The gallant Turpin might have hob-and-nobbed with Mrs. C.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. vii. 201 I will hob and nob with her over one glass of toddy.
β. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) I have frequently heard one gentleman, in company, say to another, will you hob-nob with me? When this challenge was accepted, the glasses were instantly filled, and then they made the glasses touch or kiss each other. This gentle striking of the drinking vessels I always supposed explained the term hob-nob.1831 J. Jekyll Let. 27 Jan. in Corr. (1894) 267 At a supper he hobnobbed with Lady Dudley Stuart.1842 R. H. Barham Nell Cook!! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 132 Don't..Hob-nob in Sack and Malvoisie.1862 G. A. Sala Accepted Addr. 112 [She] insisted on the Captain hobnobbing with her.
2. To hold familiar intercourse, be on familiar terms with.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > hold familiar intercourse
converse1598
bosom1633
hob or nob1756
hob-nob1828
α.
1828 Countess Granville Let. Mar. (1894) II. 17 It cannot be her interest to hob-and-nob with Lord Fitzwilliam.
1844 W. M. Thackeray Little Trav. ii An honest groom jokes and hobs-and nobs..with the Kitchen maids.
1893 H. Vizetelly Glances Back I. xvi. 303 The chairman..hobbed and nobbed unreservedly with his immediate neighbours.
β. 1866 Sat. Rev. 20 Jan. 86/1 Looking at the maid Clara, I found that she had seated herself at the table, and was prepared to hobnob it with me.1871 W. H. Dixon Tower III. xviii. 191 Eliot, now hob-nobbing with the pirate in pretended friendship.1879 G. MacDonald Paul Faber III. iii. 38 He..hob-nobbed with Death and Corruption.

Derivatives

ˈhob-ˌnobber n. one who hob-nobs.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking to each other or toasting > person
pledger1576
toaster1702
toast-master1749
hob-nobber1816
1816 Sporting Mag. 47 63 Young ladies..often left the solitary glass of wine which they took with the gentlemen hob-nobber half unfinished.
ˌhob-ˈnobbing n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking to each other or toasting
pledging1538
skolinga1599
wassail1598
healthing1628
propination1656
hob or nob1756
hob-nobbing1795
hob-noba1814
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > homeliness or familiarity > familiar intercourse
hob-nobbing1795
1795 J. Wolcot Sorrows Sunday in Wks. (1812) III. 370 May have her tea and rolls and hob and nobbing.
1812 Examiner 25 May 328/2 The joyous hobbing-a-nob of the lovers.
1830 Westm. Rev. 13 147 A little pleasant hobbing and nobbing.
1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. IV. xiii. 232 The toast was drunk with acclamation, and then followed hob-nobbing.
1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming II. xi. 218 The honour of hob-anobbing with a gentleman.
ˈhob-ˌnobby adj. characterized by or characteristic of hob-nobbing or familiar intercourse.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective] > well acquainted or familiar with > suggestive of familiar intercourse
hob-nobby1888
1888 E. M. Marsh Saved as by Fire viii Diffusing a genial, hobnobby expression over the severest countenance.
1895 M. M. Dowie Gallia xi. 123 Upon an omnibus, too, that very hob-nobby and familiar vehicle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

hob-nobphr.adv.

Etymology: In origin apparently a variant of hab nab , hab or nab : see hab adv.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhob-nob.
1. Phrase hob, nob: have or have not; used by Shakespeare apparently in the sense ‘give or take’.
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the mind > possession > taking > give or take [phrase]
hob, noba1616
the mind > possession > giving > [phrase] > give or take
hob, noba1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 234 His incensement..is so implacable, that satisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and sepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't. View more context for this quotation
2. adv. = hab nab at hab adv. 1; hit or miss; however it may turn out; at random.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [phrase] > by chance
by perchance1495
at a venture1517
per accidens1528
at hazard (also hazards)a1533
at random1543
by occasion1562
at range1568
by the way1572
by (also at) (a) peradventurea1586
hit or miss1609
at the by1611
hob-nob1660
hit and miss1897
1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iii. 130 [He] cotes as many of them, as he judges, as to number, may make a Iury, and so Hob-Nob, as they say, without mattering much what they are, so they Concord all in one in the bare naming of the words.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Hob-nob (sometimes pronounced hab-nab), at a venture, rashly.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire We'n go at it hob-nob at a venture.
3.
a. hob or nob n. (or hob a nob, hob and nob) (probably = give or take, give and take) used by two persons drinking to each other. to drink hob or nob, hob a nob, to drink to each other alternately, to take wine with each other with clinking of glasses.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking salutations [interjection]
rivoa1593
my service to you1637
tope1651
three times three1683
hob or nob1756
bottoms up!1858
chin chin1888
here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck1896
down the hatch1918
cheerio1919
cheero1919
(here's) mud in your eye1927
cheers1930
lechayim1932
salut1933
salud1938
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking salutations [interjection] > in drinking healths
have towardsc1400
here's to1597
skol1600
tope1651
hob or nob1756
slainte1824
here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck1888
santé1903
prosit1916
here's to the skin off your nose1925
(here's) mud in your eye1927
lechayim1932
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > hold familiar intercourse
converse1598
bosom1633
hob or nob1756
hob-nob1828
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking to each other or toasting
pledging1538
skolinga1599
wassail1598
healthing1628
propination1656
hob or nob1756
hob-nobbing1795
hob-noba1814
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > drink toasts or healths
hailc1275
to drink (a person's) hailc1325
to drink good lucka1529
pledge1546
carouse1583
skola1599
to drink off (or eat) candle-ends1600
health1628
to begin to a person1629
bumper1691
toast1699
to drink hob or nob, hob a nob1756
hob-nob1763
hobber-nob1800
to look towards (a person)1833
propine1887
ganbei1940
1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 27 Then..they proceed to demolish the Substantials, with, perhaps, an occasional Interruption, of, Here's to you, friends, Hob or Nob, Your Love and mine.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 252 Hob nob, Doctor, which do you chuse, white or red?
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote II. viii. xxi. 254 Having drank hob-or-nob with a young Lady, in whose eyes he wished to appear a man of consequence.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 213 With whig or with tory he'll drink hob a nob.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. v. 66 ‘Have another glass!’ ‘With you. Hob and nob’, returned the sergeant. ‘The top of mine to the foot of yours—the foot of yours to the top of mine—Ring once, ring twice—the best tune on the Musical Glasses! Your health.’
b. quasi-adj. On intimate terms of good-fellowship, in close companionship.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective] > well acquainted or familiar with > in close companionship
hob-nob1851
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xv, in Writings I. 149 In those very good..old times, hob and nob with the housebreaker.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xlvi I might be hob-and-nob with you now in your dungeon.
1871 Daily News 17 Nov. To make things pleasant..after a pleasant yet practical hob-and-nob fashion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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