WORD OF THE DAY: HOB-NOBBLE

HOB-NOBBLE

VERB
to talk intimately and confidentially together; to hob-nob ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
from hob-nob (vb. to hold familiar intercourse)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1898 - HOB-NOBBLE, v. to hob-nob; to talk intimately and confidentially together
From: The English Dialect Dictionary
- Edited by Joseph Wright

EXAMPLE
"...They're hob-nobbling ower summat. A seed ' em both i ' th ” road hob-nobbling together..."
From: The English Dialect Dictionary
- Edited by Joseph Wright
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