hob-and-nob

A form of hobnob — A toast made while touching glasses together.

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Meanings

verbhob-and-nob (third-person singular simple present hob-and-nobs, present participle hob-and-nobbing, simple past and past participle hob-and-nobbed)

present singular third person hob-and-nobs · participle present hob-and-nobbing · participle past hob-and-nobbed · past hob-and-nobbed

  1. archaicArchaic form of hobnob (“drink together”).
  2. archaicArchaic form of hobnob (“associate in a friendly manner”).

    To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.

    1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2
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    […] he would have liked to hob and nob with celebrated pickpockets, or drink a pot of ale with a company of burglars and cracksmen, had chance afforded him an opportunity of making the acquaintance of this class of society.

    1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 31, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC
  3. archaicArchaic form of hobnob (“toast by touching glasses”).
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