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Do you hobnob? Have you ever hobnobbed? Would you hobnob?<\/p>\n
To hobnob<\/strong> means “to spend time being friendly with someone who is important or famous”, according to the Cambridge Dictionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to Meriam-Webster<\/a>, to hobnob means “to drink sociably” (archaic), or “to associate familiarly”.<\/p>\n The words hob and nob first appeared together in print Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and meant “hit or miss”, and probably come from habnab<\/em> (in one way or another). The phrase “to drink hobnob” (to drink alternately to each other) became popular, and as drinking was a shared activity, hobnob came to refer to a friendly social interaction.<\/p>\n Wikitionary<\/a> defines to verb to hobnob<\/strong> as follows:<\/p>\n The noun hobnob<\/strong> is defined as:<\/p>\n Apparently it comes from hob and nob, a toasting phrase possibly meaning “give and take”, from dialectal hab nab<\/em> (\u201cto have or have not”, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink), from Old English habban<\/em> (to have, possess).<\/p>\n Hobbnobby hobnobbers hobnob snobs nibbling hobnobs. Say that quickly a few times. It might be more difficult if you’ve just eaten a hobnob<\/a> (a kind of biscuit, pictured above) and are suffering from hobnob gob.<\/p>\n This word came up at the French conversation group last night, and we discovered that the French equvialent is frayer avec qn<\/em> or fr\u00e9quenter qn<\/em>. <\/p>\n For example “On n’a rien perdu, \u00e0 part la possibilit\u00e9 de frayer avec un tas de snobs malheureux.<\/em>” (We haven’t lost a thing except the chance to hobnob with a bunch of unhappy snobs.) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n
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