"hobnob" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈhɒbnɒb/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-hobnob.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”)) + habban). Etymology templates: {{m|en|hob and nob}} hob and nob, {{m|en|hob or nob||a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks}} hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”), {{qualifier|archaic}} (archaic), {{glossary|dialectal}} dialectal, {{m|en|hab nab||to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink}} hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), {{inh|en|ang|habban||to have, possess}} Old English habban (“to have, possess”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-||to grab, seize}} Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”), {{m|ang|nabban||to not have}} nabban (“to not have”), {{m|ang|ne}} ne, {{der|en|ine-pro|*ne||not}} Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”), {{m|ang|habban}} habban Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} hobnob (not comparable)
  1. On friendly terms; in friendly association. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-hobnob-en-adj-fjMsSyyu

Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈhɒbnɒb/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-hobnob.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”)) + habban). Etymology templates: {{m|en|hob and nob}} hob and nob, {{m|en|hob or nob||a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks}} hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”), {{qualifier|archaic}} (archaic), {{glossary|dialectal}} dialectal, {{m|en|hab nab||to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink}} hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), {{inh|en|ang|habban||to have, possess}} Old English habban (“to have, possess”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-||to grab, seize}} Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”), {{m|ang|nabban||to not have}} nabban (“to not have”), {{m|ang|ne}} ne, {{der|en|ine-pro|*ne||not}} Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”), {{m|ang|habban}} habban Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} hobnob (not comparable)
  1. (obsolete) At random; at a venture; hit and miss. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-hobnob-en-adv-unV~GtjS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 35 3 1 7 1 2 28 22 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 30 5 2 11 1 4 24 21

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhɒbnɒb/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-hobnob.ogg [Australia] Forms: hobnobs [plural]
Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”)) + habban). Etymology templates: {{m|en|hob and nob}} hob and nob, {{m|en|hob or nob||a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks}} hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”), {{qualifier|archaic}} (archaic), {{glossary|dialectal}} dialectal, {{m|en|hab nab||to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink}} hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), {{inh|en|ang|habban||to have, possess}} Old English habban (“to have, possess”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-||to grab, seize}} Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”), {{m|ang|nabban||to not have}} nabban (“to not have”), {{m|ang|ne}} ne, {{der|en|ine-pro|*ne||not}} Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”), {{m|ang|habban}} habban Head templates: {{en-noun}} hobnob (plural hobnobs)
  1. (obsolete) A toast made while touching glasses together. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-hobnob-en-noun-dGq0sUWH
  2. A drinking together. Categories (topical): Drinking
    Sense id: en-hobnob-en-noun-e-IApwez Disambiguation of Drinking: 3 12 6 28 17 7 4 10 13
  3. An informal chat. Categories (topical): Talking Translations (informal chat): бъбрене (bǎbrene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), babbel [masculine] (Dutch), klapke [Belgium, dialectal, neuter] (Dutch), zwanglos unterhalten [reflexive] (German), einen Schwatz halten (German), ein Schwätzchen halten (German), κουβεντούλα (kouventoúla) [feminine] (Greek), chiacchierata [feminine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-hobnob-en-noun-QoBwxCy1 Disambiguation of Talking: 3 21 5 3 28 3 3 17 17 Disambiguation of 'informal chat': 1 1 97

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈhɒbnɒb/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-hobnob.ogg [Australia] Forms: hobnobs [present, singular, third-person], hobnobbing [participle, present], hobnobbed [participle, past], hobnobbed [past]
Etymology: From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”)) + habban). Etymology templates: {{m|en|hob and nob}} hob and nob, {{m|en|hob or nob||a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks}} hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”), {{qualifier|archaic}} (archaic), {{glossary|dialectal}} dialectal, {{m|en|hab nab||to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink}} hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), {{inh|en|ang|habban||to have, possess}} Old English habban (“to have, possess”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-||to grab, seize}} Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grab, seize”), {{m|ang|nabban||to not have}} nabban (“to not have”), {{m|ang|ne}} ne, {{der|en|ine-pro|*ne||not}} Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”), {{m|ang|habban}} habban Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} hobnob (third-person singular simple present hobnobs, present participle hobnobbing, simple past and past participle hobnobbed)
  1. (intransitive) To drink together. Tags: intransitive Translations (to drink with): черпя се (čerpja se) (Bulgarian), drinken (Dutch), borrelen (Dutch), κουτσοπίνω (koutsopíno) (Greek)
    Sense id: en-hobnob-en-verb-GszwnWYg Disambiguation of 'to drink with': 100 0 0 0
  2. (intransitive, often derogatory) To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those of a higher class or status; to fraternize. Tags: derogatory, intransitive, often Translations (to associate in a friendly manner with): дружа (druža) (Bulgarian), другарувам (drugaruvam) (Bulgarian), babbelen (Dutch), kletsen (Dutch), klappen [Belgium, dialectal] (Dutch), συναναστρέφομαι (synanastréfomai) (Greek)
    Sense id: en-hobnob-en-verb-rBzd2W70 Disambiguation of 'to associate in a friendly manner with': 0 98 2 1
  3. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To have or have not; to give or take. Tags: intransitive, obsolete, rare
    Sense id: en-hobnob-en-verb-hw0Kmi8d
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To toast one another by touching glasses. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-hobnob-en-verb-aG9R~sto
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hob-and-nob [archaic], hob-nob, fraternize, rub elbows, rub shoulders Derived forms: hobnobber, hobnobbing [noun], hobnobby Related terms: snob (english: a social climber element has often existed with both terms' senses)

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          "ref": "1884, John Ruskin, “By the Rivers of Waters”, in “Our Fathers Have Told Us.”: Sketches of the History of Christendom for Boys and Girls who have been Held at Its Fonts, part I (The Bible of Amiens), Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 30–31",
          "text": "When the dinner was a little forward, and time for wine came, the Emperor fills his own cup—fills the Empress's—fills St. Martin [of Tours]'s,—affectionately hobnobs with St. Martin. […] St. Martin looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him!",
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          "text": "The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend.",
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          "text": "His favorite spot in the club was the bar, where he could hobnob with the big-wigs.",
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          "ref": "1849, George Frederick Ruxton, chapter III, in Life in the Far West (Plains and Rockies; 175), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 71",
          "text": "Here, over fiery \"monaghahela,\" Jean Batiste, the sallow half-breed voyageur from the north—and who, deserting the service of the \"North West\" (the Hudson's Bay Company), has come down the Mississippi, from the \"Falls,\" to try the sweets and the liberty of \"free\" trapping—hobnobs with a stalwart leather-clad \"boy,\" just returned from trapping on the waters of Grand River, on the western side the mountains, who interlards his mountain jargon with Spanish words picked up in Taos and California.",
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          "ref": "1853 October, Jonathan Freke Slingsby [pseudonym; John Francis Waller], “A Night with the Mystics”, in The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume XLII, number CCL, Dublin: James McGlashan, 50 Upper Sackville-Street; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr and Company, →OCLC, page 495",
          "text": "Well, you know all about how we dine, and assume, as you may, that we never ate more heartily, hob[-]nobbed more cordially, or interchanged with more frankness and sincerity all the affectionate social amenities which flow from a community of feeling amongst men who are bound together by the great bond of intellectual citizenship, members of the great \"mysteries\" of knowledge.",
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          "ref": "1855, “Back at Trinity”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal, volume XI, number 22 (275 overall), New York, N.Y.: J. A. Dix, publisher, office, No. 10, Park Place, →OCLC, page 521, column 1",
          "text": "A man who never misused his time here; a Fellow of his Colleges, M.A., Lecturer, Don; […] my name, alas is not upon the board—my poverty, indeed, not will, prevented it, and so beneath his wing I dine at the \"high table\" with the reverend deans, and hobnob with professors.",
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          "ref": "1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "But it must be in solitude. I do not need or desire to hobnob artificially with other old men in order to revisit them in their salad days, and to renew my own.",
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          "ref": "2001, Garrison Keillor, “A Summer Night”, in Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press",
          "text": "We are Sanctified Brethren, […] whom God has chosen to place in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, a town of about twelve hundred in the center of the state, populated by German Catholics and Norwegian Lutherans, whom Scripture tells us to keep clear of, holding fast to the Principle of Separation[…], which is not such a big problem for my people, because we are standoffish by nature and not given to hobnobbing with strangers. Separation is the exact right Principle for us.",
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          "ref": "2017 October 14, Paul Doyle, “Mauricio Pellegrino yet to find attacking solution for stuttering Southampton: Nothing so far this season suggests the Argentinian will be more successful than Claude Puel in finding the answer to the club’s continuing lack of firepower”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-11-10",
          "text": "[A] club that has earned the right to aspire to hobnobbing with European competitors could find itself brawling against relegation.",
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          "ref": "2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "He met President Biden and embarked on a 21-city global tour, hobnobbing with leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.",
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          "text": "I have frequently heard one gentleman, in company, say to another, will you hob-nob with me? When this challenge was accepted, the glasses were instantly filled, and then they made the glasses touch or kiss each other. This gentle striking of the drinking vessels I always supposed explained the term hob-nob.",
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          "ref": "1823, Jon Bee [pseudonym; John Badcock], “Hob-nob”, in Slang. A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-ton, and the Varieties of Life, Forming the Completest and Most Authentic Lexicon Balatronicum hitherto Offered to the Notice of the Sporting World, …, London: Printed for T. Hughes, 35, Ludgate-Street, →OCLC, page 97",
          "text": "With a hob-nob, and a merry go-round, / We'll pull in ere reason fail; / For the stoutest man in the kingdom found, / Must knock under to humming ale.",
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          "ref": "1870 May, “Irish Life”, in The Saint Pauls Magazine, volume VI, London: Strahan & Co., publishers, 56, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC, page 203",
          "text": "A prologue of cherry bounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts.",
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        "(obsolete) A toast made while touching glasses together."
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        {
          "text": "The three friends had a hobnob outside the bar.",
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        {
          "ref": "1865, [James Dawson Burn], “The Cities of America—New York”, in Three Years among the Working-classes in the United States during the War, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, →OCLC, page 117",
          "text": "The American people are largely under the influence of animal magnetism. Whether they are drawn to the levée of a Tom Thumb or to a hobnob with the Russians, the safety-valves of their joyous feelings are sure to be opened when the Stars and Stripes flaunt over their churches, public buildings, and private dwellings.",
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        {
          "ref": "1873 February 1, “Waifs [from the Irish Builder]”, in The Musical World, volume 51, number 5, London: Published by Duncan Davison & Co., 244, Regent Street, →OCLC, page 69, column 2",
          "text": "[T]he musical and dramatic critiques in our daily papers are dishonest, shameful, utterly unworthy, and a scandal to journalism and Ireland! Praise is lavishly dispensed because the system pays, […] 'A full house' on Saturday will procure a longer advertisement on Monday morning, another 'free pass' all round, and a hobnob perhaps with Signor, Senora, Herr Bugle, Madame, or Madamoiselle.",
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          "ref": "1884, John Ruskin, “By the Rivers of Waters”, in “Our Fathers Have Told Us.”: Sketches of the History of Christendom for Boys and Girls who have been Held at Its Fonts, part I (The Bible of Amiens), Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 30–31",
          "text": "When the dinner was a little forward, and time for wine came, the Emperor fills his own cup—fills the Empress's—fills St. Martin [of Tours]'s,—affectionately hobnobs with St. Martin. […] St. Martin looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him!",
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        "To drink together."
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        "(intransitive) To drink together."
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          "text": "The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend.",
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        {
          "text": "His favorite spot in the club was the bar, where he could hobnob with the big-wigs.",
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        {
          "ref": "1849, George Frederick Ruxton, chapter III, in Life in the Far West (Plains and Rockies; 175), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 71",
          "text": "Here, over fiery \"monaghahela,\" Jean Batiste, the sallow half-breed voyageur from the north—and who, deserting the service of the \"North West\" (the Hudson's Bay Company), has come down the Mississippi, from the \"Falls,\" to try the sweets and the liberty of \"free\" trapping—hobnobs with a stalwart leather-clad \"boy,\" just returned from trapping on the waters of Grand River, on the western side the mountains, who interlards his mountain jargon with Spanish words picked up in Taos and California.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1853 October, Jonathan Freke Slingsby [pseudonym; John Francis Waller], “A Night with the Mystics”, in The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume XLII, number CCL, Dublin: James McGlashan, 50 Upper Sackville-Street; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr and Company, →OCLC, page 495",
          "text": "Well, you know all about how we dine, and assume, as you may, that we never ate more heartily, hob[-]nobbed more cordially, or interchanged with more frankness and sincerity all the affectionate social amenities which flow from a community of feeling amongst men who are bound together by the great bond of intellectual citizenship, members of the great \"mysteries\" of knowledge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1855, “Back at Trinity”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal, volume XI, number 22 (275 overall), New York, N.Y.: J. A. Dix, publisher, office, No. 10, Park Place, →OCLC, page 521, column 1",
          "text": "A man who never misused his time here; a Fellow of his Colleges, M.A., Lecturer, Don; […] my name, alas is not upon the board—my poverty, indeed, not will, prevented it, and so beneath his wing I dine at the \"high table\" with the reverend deans, and hobnob with professors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "But it must be in solitude. I do not need or desire to hobnob artificially with other old men in order to revisit them in their salad days, and to renew my own.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Garrison Keillor, “A Summer Night”, in Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press",
          "text": "We are Sanctified Brethren, […] whom God has chosen to place in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, a town of about twelve hundred in the center of the state, populated by German Catholics and Norwegian Lutherans, whom Scripture tells us to keep clear of, holding fast to the Principle of Separation[…], which is not such a big problem for my people, because we are standoffish by nature and not given to hobnobbing with strangers. Separation is the exact right Principle for us.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 14, Paul Doyle, “Mauricio Pellegrino yet to find attacking solution for stuttering Southampton: Nothing so far this season suggests the Argentinian will be more successful than Claude Puel in finding the answer to the club’s continuing lack of firepower”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-11-10",
          "text": "[A] club that has earned the right to aspire to hobnobbing with European competitors could find itself brawling against relegation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "He met President Biden and embarked on a 21-city global tour, hobnobbing with leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.",
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        "(intransitive, often derogatory) To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those of a higher class or status; to fraternize."
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          "ref": "1828, [William Carr], “[A Glossary of the Craven Dialect.] HOB-NOB”, in The Dialect of Craven, in the West-riding of the County of York, with a Copious Glossary, Illustrated by Authorities from Ancient English and Scotting Writers, and Exemplified by Two Familiar Dialogues. By a Native of Craven. In Two Volumes, 2nd much enlarged edition, volume I, London: Printed for W[illia]m Crofts, 59, Carley-Street, Lincoln's Inn; Leeds: Robinson and Hernaman, →OCLC, page 229",
          "text": "I have frequently heard one gentleman, in company, say to another, will you hob-nob with me? When this challenge was accepted, the glasses were instantly filled, and then they made the glasses touch or kiss each other. This gentle striking of the drinking vessels I always supposed explained the term hob-nob.",
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      "roman": "čerpja se",
      "sense": "to drink with",
      "word": "черпя се"
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      "word": "drinken"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to drink with",
      "word": "borrelen"
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      "sense": "to drink with",
      "word": "κουτσοπίνω"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "druža",
      "sense": "to associate in a friendly manner with",
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      "roman": "drugaruvam",
      "sense": "to associate in a friendly manner with",
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      "sense": "to associate in a friendly manner with",
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      "sense": "to associate in a friendly manner with",
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      "roman": "synanastréfomai",
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      "word": "συναναστρέφομαι"
    }
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        "2": "habban"
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        "At random; at a venture; hit and miss."
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