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hob

1

[ hob ]

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.


verb (used with or without object)

, hobbed, hob·bing.
  1. Machinery. to cut with a hob.

hob

2

[ hob ]

noun

  1. a hobgoblin or elf.

hob

1

/ hɒb /

noun

  1. the flat top part of a cooking stove, or a separate flat surface, containing hotplates or burners
  2. a shelf beside an open fire, for keeping kettles, etc, hot
  3. a steel pattern used in forming a mould or die in cold metal
  4. a hard steel rotating cutting tool used in machines for cutting gears
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verb

  1. tr to cut or form with a hob
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

hob

2

/ hɒb /

noun

  1. a hobgoblin or elf
  2. a male ferret
  3. raise hob or play hob informal.
    to cause mischief or disturbance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈhobˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From

  • hob·ber noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hob1

First recorded in 1505–15; variant of obsolete hub “hob (in a fireplace)”; perhaps identical with hub

Origin of hob2

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, special use of Hob(be), for Robert or Robin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hob1

C16: variant of obsolete hubbe, of unknown origin; perhaps related to hub

Origin of hob2

C14: variant of Rob, short for Robin or Robert
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. play hob with, to do mischief or harm to:

    The child played hob with my radio, and now it won't work at all.

  2. raise hob, to cause a destructive commotion; behave disruptively:

    They raised such hob with their antagonistic questions that the meeting broke up.

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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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