英和和英

名詞

hobnail (複数形 hobnails)

1. A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.
2. (obsolete) A yokel; a rustic.
   • 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?: s.n.], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1859, George Meredith, chapter 9, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:

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

等位語

• blakey
• seg

派生語

動詞

hobnail (三人称単数 現在形 hobnails, 現在分詞 hobnailing, 過去形および過去分詞形 hobnailed)

1. To fit with hobnails.

   a machine for the hobnailing of shoes

2. (transitive, archaic) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
   • 1875, Tennyson, Queen Mary:

     Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.

参照

Further reading

• hobnail on Wikipedia.