Definitions for hobnob

hobnob hob·nob

Spelling: [hob-nob]
IPA: /ˈhɒbˌnɒb/

Hobnob is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in hobnob (bbhnoo).

Definitions for hobnob

noun

  1. a friendly, informal chat.

verb (used without object)

  1. to associate on very friendly terms (usually followed by with):
  2. Archaic. to drink together.

Origin of hobnob

1595-1605; from the phrase hab or nab literally, have or have not, Old English habban to have + nabban not to have (ne not + habban to have)

Examples for hobnob

It means you'll have to hobnob with Eurasian clerks and their wives.

How odd it is that the Joyeuses should care to hobnob with demi-castors.

Here on the road they are as good as any; they hobnob with the rose.

To go and hobnob with the Chambannes and their friends, that would be the last straw!

Do I hobnob with all the half-starved limners in Fleet Street?

You would not wish to insult me by refusing to hobnob with me?

You were half-drunk when you and Perley began to hobnob over a downtown bar.

Jacinto Quesada had not stopped in passing to hobnob with the Gypsies.

He'd not turn from the duty intrusted to him to hobnob with a Prince of the Blood.

Again I am struck by the familiar way in which the Russians hobnob with the Mongols.

Word Value for hobnob
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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