Definitions for hobs

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hobs hob

Spelling: [hob]

IPA: /hɒb/

Hobs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in hobs (bhos).

Definitions for hobs

noun

1. a projection or shelf at the back or side of a fireplace, used for keeping food warm.
2. a rounded peg or pin used as a target in quoits and similar games.
3. a game in which such a peg is used.
4. Machinery. a milling cutter for gear and sprocket teeth, splines, threads, etc., having helically arranged teeth and fed across the work as the work is rotated.
5. a hobgoblin or elf.

Idioms

1. play hob with, to do mischief or harm to:
2. raise hob, to cause a destructive commotion; behave disruptively:

verb (used with or without object)

1. Machinery. to cut with a hob.

Origin of hobs

1505-15; variant of obsolete hub hob (in a fireplace); perhaps identical with hub

Examples for hobs

His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most.

The fire was burning brightly, and the kettle was singing on the hob.

“Come, doctor, let you and I hob and nob,” said the first-lieutenant.

The kettle chooses to sit still on the hob; the eagle to recline on the air.

There was a kettle on the hob, as there had been night and day for fifteen years.

He rose then, and attentively poked in a small saucepan on the hob with a fork.

Shan't I be glad when I get richer and better known, and hob and nob with him!'

hob or nob is explained by him to mean "Will you have a glass of wine or not?"

The kettle will be coming soon to sing on the hob: and that will do nearly as well.

hob, nob is applied by Shakspeare to another alternative, viz.