hobnob

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɒbnɒb/
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• General-American: /ˈhɑbˌnɑb/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 B N AA2 B Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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 *kap- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”)) + habban).

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: бъбрене (bǎbrene) — informal chat
• Bulgarian: приказка (prikazka) — informal chat
• Dutch: babbel — informal chat
• Dutch: klapke — informal chat
• German: zwanglos unterhalten — informal chat
• German: einen Schwatz halten — informal chat
• German: ein Schwätzchen halten — informal chat
• Greek: κουβεντούλα (kouventoúla) — informal chat
• Italian: chiacchierata — informal chat
• Bulgarian: черпя се (čerpja se) — to drink with
• Dutch: drinken — to drink with
• Dutch: borrelen — to drink with
• Greek: κουτσοπίνω (koutsopíno) — to drink with
• Bulgarian: дружа (druža) — to associate in a friendly manner with
• Bulgarian: другарувам (drugaruvam) — to associate in a friendly manner with
• Dutch: babbelen — to associate in a friendly manner with
• Dutch: kletsen — to associate in a friendly manner with
• Dutch: klappen — to associate in a friendly manner with
• Greek: συναναστρέφομαι (synanastréfomai) — to associate in a friendly manner with