hob-and-nob

English

Verb

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

1. Archaic form of hobnob (“drink together”).
2. Archaic form of hobnob (“associate in a friendly manner”).
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 31, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     […] 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.

   • 1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2:

     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.

3. Archaic form of hobnob (“toast by touching glasses”).