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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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Last edited by DavidTuggy (2025-02-05 08:41:34)
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I thought we must have reported this already, but I didn’t find it:
she likes hobnailing with the elite
He liked to hobnail with the rich and mighty
No hobnailing with the glitteratti or even beer-swilling with the common folk.
Meanwhile, Henry stakes out The Alleycats and notices Paul Deeds hobnailing with Chuntao.
i was in limbo last time and now i’m gonna be hobnailing with dimitri
You can’t hobnail with the wicked [and expect to survive unscathed]
We then get to hobnail with the rich and famous, still remembering where we are and who is in charge.
Explain your absence. Were you hobnailing with the rich and famous?
The word seems to be standard for at least one person; she’s used it at least three times that I have heard, and has said she isn’t sure what else it ought to be. It has also been used in written form, including a few times in something resembling a formal publication.
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Any eggcornish reasoning is not entirely clear to me. It sounds like like it ought to mean galumphing clumsily around with the rich or the wicked or whoever, which might make enough sense: Those described are perhaps viewed as outsiders, not initially familiar or automatically comfortable with those they hobnail with.
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Or maybe it’s some kind of tough-guy chic? The rich ones one’s involved with may wear worn jeans and battered cowboy hats to go along with their scuffed and hobnailed $1600 boots, while the “common folk” with whom one “beer-swills” wear the genuine $25 originals. (I know they cost more than $25 nowadays, but they bought them back when.)
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A perhaps-relevant but different malapropism:
Mike and Dave want to go hodgepodge with the big heels
The ones I take particular offense to personally are his hodgepodging with the teenage Twitter Nazis who want to evaporate me and my fellow Jews
she was getting tired of hodgepodging with the stiff rich. He was two hours late.
The “big heels” sound like cowboy-boot wearers, whether the boots are hobnailed or not. Maybe a blend of “big wheels” and “well-heeled” ?
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2025-02-06 02:15:41)
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Sorry, it wasn’t letting me post an edited version or delete the unedited (incomplete) one. Anyhow … I still can’t delete the first one or this, but at least it’s letting me edit them.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2025-02-05 08:39:56)
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“Hobnailing with the elite” sounds like a successful audition with a notable clog-dancing troupe.
Hop-nobbing suggests an insincere form of socialising:(1937) The Hobnail Hop, annual engineers dance, is held in the spring under the auspices of the Council. An Engineering Queen is elected by the school at large to …
At that point, I was beginning to experience a taste of the high life, running pre-listing road shows in New York and Boston and hopnobbing with …
Hopnobbing with the rich and powerful, licking their arses and letting on they care for the poor.
I am famous today like you know I am hopnobbing with all the big stars.
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“Hopnailing” ? very good.
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Hobnob, hobnail. Close to being a contracorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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“Hopnailing” ? very good.
Aye, bropaply mistybed again.
This variant reminds me of the original Snow White story in which the Queen did not succumb to a bite of poisoned apple but was obliged instead to step into a pair of red-hot iron shoes and dance until she was dead.
Tell you mate if he dosent like the music not too kick in with his hot nail boots on.
Yes. A and I looked out the window and I saw, I mean, it was incredible to see folks arriving. They had hot nail boots. They were disheveled. I had to go and sit on the loo for an hour.
And she had hot nail boots. and she had a long shawl. and around her shoulders. and in her hair. with long brown hair down.
As a youth I often had nails and segs hammered into the soles of my shoes. For rubber soles, especially wellies, it was necessary to get them very hot to fix them firmly.
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Seg is a word I didn’t know. I didn’t get much help from the omniscient Google either. I guess they are some kind of stud?
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When in doubt, an almost permanent state these days, I use OneLook which has a fair number of seg mentions. Small segments of metal apparently – if your soles are wearing thin you might be in need of Blakeys: https://blakeys-segs.co.uk
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