Hobnail

What do we mean by hobnail?

A short nail with a thick head used to protect the soles of shoes or boots. noun

Having or decorated with a raised pattern of bumps resembling such nails. adjective

A short thick nail with a pointed tang and a large head, used for nailing the soles of heavy boots and shoes. noun

A clownish person: used in contempt. noun

To furnish or fasten with hobnails.

To tread roughly upon, as with heavy hobnailed shoes.

A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing horses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. noun

A clownish person; a rustic. noun

A disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver. noun

A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles. noun

To fit with hobnails. verb

To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. verb

Supply with hobnails verb

A short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots noun

A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles.

A clownish person; a rustic.

Of french origin; le hob a hobnail is a type of french salad dressing, mainly used by those in prison. Urban Dictionary

Having filthier, more enthusiastic sexual intercourse with your significant other at a hotel simply because you are not in your own home. Urban Dictionary

To kick the living shit out of someone during a fight. Derived from hobnailed boots that are heavy durable boots with hobnails through the soles. If you kicked someone with a hobnailed boot, you'd likely do some damage. Urban Dictionary

To shamelessly pander for a Pulitzer or other, similar award, especially by choosing as one's theme, certain hot-button social issues that the committee would likely feel obliged to vote for. (Possibly a conflation of Hobbes' "war of all against all" with Machiavelli's advice to give lip-service to virtue but act viciously.) Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to hobnail:
hobnail.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word hobnail:
soles, boots, boot, milk, cell, glass.

Words that rhyme with hobnail:
scale, rail, pale, hail, entail, trail, mail, avail, email, whale, sale, detail, tail, prevail, nail, bail, cocktail, fail, curtail, ale, sail, tale, veil, assail, hale, retail, stale, gale, bale, frail, quail, travail, vale, wail, male, dovetail, blackmail, flail, wholesale, swale, zale, telltale, voicemail, pail, dale, ail, braille, kale, grail, shale, jail, female, upscale, snail, wale, vail, derail, unveil, impale, exhale, yale, surveil, fairytale, inhale, abigail, holy grail, foxtail, quale, cale, gmail, guardrail, ponytail, thumbnail, handrail, brail, greenmail, gael, dwale, gail, coattail, dail, orrell, toenail, resale, monorail, fantail, martingale, airedale, horsetail, clydesdale, countervail, folktale, airmail, soleil, biennale, faille, kail, calle, salle, shail.

Adjectives that are often used to describe hobnail:
small, single, good.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective hobnail:
boots, cells, liver, appearance, shoes, boot, pattern, glass, hemangioma, cell, type, fashion, brogan, epithelium, shoe, sole, configuration, sandals.

Words that sound like hobnail:
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