hobnob
Plural: hobnobs
Verb
Verb Forms: hobnobbed, hobnobbing, hobnobs
- To associate or socialize in a friendly, informal manner.
- rub elbows with
- "He hobnobs with the best of society"
- To drink together.
- To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those of a higher class or status; to fraternize.
- To have or have not; to give or take.
- To toast one another by touching glasses.
Noun
- A toast made while touching glasses together.
- A drinking together.
- An informal chat.
Adj
- On friendly terms; in friendly association.
Adv
- At random; at a venture; hit and miss.
Examples
- At the Scrabble tournament, players would HOBNOB over strategies and past victories.
- His favorite spot in the club was the bar, where he could hobnob with the big-wigs.
- The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend.
- The three friends had a hobnob outside the bar.
Origin / Etymology
From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”)) + habban).
Synonyms
fraternize, rub elbows, rub shoulders
Scrabble Score: 13
hobnob: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhobnob: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hobnob: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary