hobnail

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
  2. A yokel; a rustic. obsolete
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To fit with hobnails.
    — a machine for the hobnailing of shoes
  2. To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. archaic,transitive
    — Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.

词形变化

hobnails plural hobnails present,singular,third-person hobnailing participle,present hobnailed participle,past hobnailed past

词汇关系

衍生词
hobnail boot hobnailer hobnail liver
并列词
blakey seg shoe protector

词源

词源 1
From hob + nail. The oldest attestation is in William Shakespeare, but he likely did not coin the term.
词源 2
From hob + nail. The oldest attestation is in William Shakespeare, but he likely did not coin the term.
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