hobnail
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Is hobnail a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of hobnail?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A yokel; a rustic.Examples: "Next, the word Politician is not us'd to his maw, and therupon he plays the most notorious hobbihors, jesting and frisking in the luxury of his non-sense with such poor fetches to cog a laughter from us, that no antic hobnaile at a Morris, but is more hansomly facetious."; "There lay Tom; hobnail Tom! a bacon-munching, reckless, beer-swilling animal! and yet a man …"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, archaic) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.Examples: "Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush."archaictransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary