hobnob

动词 hobnob:

1. rub elbows with

1. I've been hobnobbing with the directors at the office party.
   我在公司宴会上一直跟董事们相酬酢。

hob.nob

v.intr.（不及物动词）
hob.nobbed,hob.nob.bing,hob.nobs
To associate familiarly:
亲切交谈：
例句：
hobnobs with the executives.
与高级官员们亲切交谈

来源：
From the phrase (drink) hob or nob [(toast) one another alternately]
源自片语 (drink) hob or nob [轮流（敬酒）]
from obsolete and dialectal hab nab [have or have not]
源自 废语和方言 hab nab [有或没有]
probably Middle English habbe [have] * see have
可能为 中古英语 habbe [有] *参见 have
Middle English nabbe contraction of ne habbe [have not] Old English ne [not] * see not habbe [have]
中古英语 nabbe ne habbe的缩写 [没有] 古英语 ne [否，无] *参见 not habbe [有]

<注释>The fact that hobnobbing with our social betters may at times be a hit-or-miss propositionhas an etymological justification.The verbhobnob originally meant .to drink together. and occurred as a varying phrase,hob or nob, hob-a-nob, or hob and nob, the first of which is recorded in 7'3.This phrasal form reflects the origins of the verb in similar phrasesthat were used when two people were toasting each other.The probable reason that the phrases were so used is thathob is a variant of hab, asnob is of nab, and that these in turn are probably forms of have and its negative. In Middle English, for example, one finds the formshabbe, .to have,. and nabbe, .not to have.. Hab or nab, or simply hab nab, thus meant .get or lose, hit or miss,. and the varianthob-nob also meant .hit or miss.. Used in the drinking phrase,hob or nob would have probably meant .give or take,. and from a drinking situationhob nob spread to other forms of chumminess.
与社会地位比我们高的人亲切交谈有时候是一种随随便便的行为，这种事实是有语源学上的根据的。动词hobnob 的初义为.一起喝酒.， 并有许多变体，如hob or nob ， hob-a-nob 或 hob and nob ， 其中第一个首见于7'3年的记录中。这种词组构成反应了类似词组中的动词来源，他们都用于两个人互相敬酒的情况。这种词组如此使用的原因可能因为hob 是 hab 的变体， 而nob 是 nab 的变体，而且这两者又可能是 have 和其否定式的变体。 例如人们在中古英语中可发现habbe .有.和 nabbe .没有.的形式。 Hab or nab 或简作 hab nab， 就指.得到或失去，成功或不成功.， 其变体hob-nob 也有同样的意思.成功或不成功.。 在与饮酒有关的词汇中，hob or nob 可能指.自饮或敬酒，. 并从饮酒情况下使用的hob nob 扩展到其他亲密的场合