Meaning of hobnail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
2. A yokel; a rustic.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Next, the word Politician is not us'd to his maw, and therupon he plays the most notorious hobbihors, jesting and frisking in the luxury of his non-sense with such poor fetches to cog a laughter from us, that no antic hobnaile at a Morris, but is more hansomly facetious.”

“There lay Tom; hobnail Tom! a bacon-munching, reckless, beer-swilling animal! and yet a man …”

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