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hobnob

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源自hob and nob、hob or nob (乾杯時所喊出的一個短語，可能意為give and take，指輪流乾杯或輪流買酒，現已古舊)，源自方言詞hab nab (「有或沒有，指去喝酒的邀請」)[1][2]，源自古英語 habban (「擁有」)（最終源自原始印歐語 *keh₂p- (「拿，掠」)） + nabban (「沒有」)（源自ne（最終源自原始印歐語 *ne (「不，否」)） + habban）。

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hobnob (複數 hobnobs)

  1. (棄用) 乾杯，碰杯
    • 1823, Jon Bee [pseudonym; John Badcock], 「Hob-nob」, 出自 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，第 97 頁:
      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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    • 1870 May, 「Irish Life」, 出自 The Saint Pauls Magazine, 第 VI 卷, London: Strahan & Co., publishers, 56, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC，第 203 頁:
      A prologue of cherry bounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts.
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  2. 一起喝酒，共飲
  3. 聊天
    The three friends had a hobnob outside the bar.
    三個朋友在酒吧外聊天。
    • 1865, [James Dawson Burn], 「The Cities of America—New York」, 出自 Three Years among the Working-classes in the United States during the War, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, →OCLC，第 117 頁:
      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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    • 1873年2月1日, 「Waifs [from the Irish Builder]」, 出自 The Musical World, 第 51 卷, 第 5 期, London: Published by Duncan Davison & Co., 244, Regent Street, →OCLC，第 69 頁，第 2 列:
      [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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hobnob (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 hobnobs，現在分詞 hobnobbing，一般過去時及過去分詞 hobnobbed)

  1. (不及物) 一起喝酒，共飲
    • [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, 「How to Live Well on Nothing a-Year」, 出自 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 1848, →OCLC，第 322 頁:
      Many a glass of wine have we all of us drank, I have very little doubt, hob-and-nobbing with the hospitable giver, and wondering how the deuce he paid for it.
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    • 1884, John Ruskin, 「By the Rivers of Waters」, 出自 「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，第 30–31 頁s:
      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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  2. (不及物，常貶義) 巴結，與...親近 （有權勢的人）
    The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend.
    那位野心勃勃的年輕學生巴結上了他想上的名牌大學的老師。
    His favorite spot in the club was the bar, where he could hobnob with the big-wigs.
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    • 1849, George Frederick Ruxton, 章號 III, 出自 Life in the Far West (Plains and Rockies; 175), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC，第 71 頁:
      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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    • 1853 October, Jonathan Freke Slingsby [pseudonym; John Francis Waller], 「A Night with the Mystics」, 出自 The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, 第 XLII 卷, 第 CCL 號, Dublin: James McGlashan, 50 Upper Sackville-Street; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr and Company, →OCLC，第 495 頁:
      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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    • 1855, 「Back at Trinity」, 出自 Charles Dickens 編, Household Words. A Weekly Journal, 第 XI 卷, 第 22 (275 overall) 期, New York, N.Y.: J. A. Dix, publisher, office, No. 10, Park Place, →OCLC，第 521 頁，第 1 列:
      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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    • 1952 May, George Santayana, 「I Like to Be a Stranger」, 出自 The Atlantic‎[1]:
      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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    • 2001, Garrison Keillor, 「A Summer Night」, 出自 Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN:
      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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    • 2017年10月14日, 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」, 出自 The Guardian‎[2], London，於10 November 2017歸檔自原頁面:
      [A] club that has earned the right to aspire to hobnobbing with European competitors could find itself brawling against relegation.
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  3. (不及物，棄用，罕用) 給予或索取；擁有或沒有
  4. (不及物，棄用) 互相碰杯 （自19世紀初葉）
    • 1828, [William Carr], 「[A Glossary of the Craven Dialect.] HOB-NOB」, 出自 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版, 第 I 卷, London: Printed for W[illia]m Crofts, 59, Carley-Street, Lincoln's Inn; Leeds: Robinson and Hernaman, →OCLC，第 229 頁:
      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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參見

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  • snob (有趨炎附勢之意)

形容詞

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hobnob (無比較級)

  1. 友好的

副詞

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hobnob (不可比)

  1. (棄用) 隨機地，隨便地，碰運氣地

參考資料

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  1. ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2024年)，「hobnob」，《線上詞源詞典》（Online Etymology Dictionary）
  2. ↑ 對比「hobnob」，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.
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