hobbish

comparative more hobbish · superlative most hobbish

1. rustic; characteristic of a hob or yokel

1. archaicnot comparableHobbesian

   Their Notions Machiavellian, Hobbish, / Draw Multitudes, because they’re Mobbish

   1704, Edward Ward, The Dissenting Hypocrite, or Occasional Conformist; […] , page 12

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   […] the Preacher (tho’ a celebrated Divine of our Church, whose Principles are entirely Monarchical) has freely asserted several Hobbish Notions, and told us, that Democracy is of equal esteem with Monarchy, that Succession is a Jest, that all Forms of Government are in their own Nature mutable, and may be altered, or quite rescinded, as the Power in beginning shall think fit.

   1705, William Shippen, Moderation Display’d: A Poem, Preface

   But I believe his Toryism to have been a natural emanation of his Hobbish infidelity, though in this age when infidelity affects democracy, and blackguards affect infidelity, this may sound like a paradox.

   1851, Hartley Coleridge, “Notes on British Poets”, in Derwent Coleridge, editor, Essays and Marginalia, volume 2, page 72