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hob
1[ hob ]
noun
- a projection or shelf at the back or side of a fireplace, used for keeping food warm.
- a rounded peg or pin used as a target in quoits and similar games.
- a game in which such a peg is used.
- 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.
verb (used with or without object)
- Machinery. to cut with a hob.
hob
2[ hob ]
noun
- a hobgoblin or elf.
hob
1/ hɒb /
noun
- the flat top part of a cooking stove, or a separate flat surface, containing hotplates or burners
- a shelf beside an open fire, for keeping kettles, etc, hot
- a steel pattern used in forming a mould or die in cold metal
- a hard steel rotating cutting tool used in machines for cutting gears
verb
- tr to cut or form with a hob
hob
2/ hɒb /
noun
- a hobgoblin or elf
- a male ferret
- raise hob or play hob informal.to cause mischief or disturbance
Derived Forms
- ˈhobˌlike, adjective
Other Words From
- hob·ber noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hob1
Origin of hob2
Idioms and Phrases
- play hob with, to do mischief or harm to:
The child played hob with my radio, and now it won't work at all.
- raise hob, to cause a destructive commotion; behave disruptively:
They raised such hob with their antagonistic questions that the meeting broke up.
Example Sentences
Can I go hob-nob, maybe make some sweet business connections?
He loved hob-nobbing with the great and not-so-great, his emotions vulnerable to flattery—and rejection.
One evening at tea, a copper kettle, with hot water, stood on the hob.
And he's been hob-nobbing with some old friends who have turned up at one of the big hotels—I forget which.
In the winter Snow-white lit the fire and hung the kettle on the hob.
For he too was famous in his own sphere; and in the drawing-room of Wilkins's one celebrity was hob-nobbing with another!
This comes of your princesses, that turn the world upside down, and demean themselves to hob and nob with these black baldicoots!
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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