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Synonyms for hobnob

Grammar : Verb
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Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɒbˌnɒb

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Définition of hobnob

Origin :
  • 1763, "to drink to each other," from hob and nob (1756) "to toast each other by turns, to buy alternate rounds of drinks," from c.1550 hab nab "to have or have not, hit or miss," probably ultimately from Old English habban, nabban "have, not have," with the negative particle ne- attached, as was customary. Modern sense of "socialize" is 1866. Related: Hobnobbed; hobnobbing.
  • verb associate with
Example sentences :
  • He'd not turn from the duty intrusted to him to hobnob with a Prince of the Blood.
  • Extract from : « The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Again I am struck by the familiar way in which the Russians hobnob with the Mongols.
  • Extract from : « A Wayfarer in China » by Elizabeth Kendall
  • You would not wish to insult me by refusing to hobnob with me?
  • Extract from : « The Red Track » by Gustave Aimard
  • Here on the road they are as good as any; they hobnob with the rose.
  • Extract from : « In the Open » by Stanton Davis Kirkham
  • How odd it is that the Joyeuses should care to hobnob with demi-castors.
  • Extract from : « The Monster » by Edgar Saltus
  • Jacinto Quesada had not stopped in passing to hobnob with the Gypsies.
  • Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey
  • To go and hobnob with the Chambannes and their friends, that would be the last straw!
  • Extract from : « Two banks of the Seine » by Fernand Vandrem
  • Do I hobnob with all the half-starved limners in Fleet Street?
  • Extract from : « Jewel Mysteries » by Max Pemberton
  • It means you'll have to hobnob with Eurasian clerks and their wives.
  • Extract from : « East of Suez » by William Somerset Maugham
  • You were half-drunk when you and Perley began to hobnob over a downtown bar.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Jimmie Dale » by Frank L. Packard

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