動(dòng)詞 hobnob:

1. rub elbows with

1. I've been hobnobbing with the directors at the office party.
   我在公司宴會(huì)上一直跟董事們相酬酢。

hob.nob

v.intr.（不及物動(dòng)詞）
hob.nobbed,hob.nob.bing,hob.nobs
To associate familiarly:
親切交談：
例句：
hobnobs with the executives.
與高級(jí)官員們親切交談

來(lái)源：
From the phrase (drink) hob or nob [(toast) one another alternately]
源自片語(yǔ) (drink) hob or nob [輪流（敬酒）]
from obsolete and dialectal hab nab [have or have not]
源自 廢語(yǔ)和方言 hab nab [有或沒(méi)有]
probably Middle English habbe [have] * see have
可能為 中古英語(yǔ) habbe [有] *參見(jiàn) have
Middle English nabbe contraction of ne habbe [have not] Old English ne [not] * see not habbe [have]
中古英語(yǔ) nabbe ne habbe的縮寫(xiě) [沒(méi)有] 古英語(yǔ) ne [否，無(wú)] *參見(jiàn) not habbe [有]

<注釋>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.
與社會(huì)地位比我們高的人親切交談?dòng)袝r(shí)候是一種隨隨便便的行為，這種事實(shí)是有語(yǔ)源學(xué)上的根據(jù)的。動(dòng)詞hobnob 的初義為.一起喝酒.， 并有許多變體，如hob or nob ， hob-a-nob 或 hob and nob ， 其中第一個(gè)首見(jiàn)于7'3年的記錄中。這種詞組構(gòu)成反應(yīng)了類(lèi)似詞組中的動(dòng)詞來(lái)源，他們都用于兩個(gè)人互相敬酒的情況。這種詞組如此使用的原因可能因?yàn)?strong>hob 是 hab 的變體， 而nob 是 nab 的變體，而且這兩者又可能是 have 和其否定式的變體。 例如人們?cè)谥泄庞⒄Z(yǔ)中可發(fā)現(xiàn)habbe .有.和 nabbe .沒(méi)有.的形式。 Hab or nab 或簡(jiǎn)作 hab nab， 就指.得到或失去，成功或不成功.， 其變體hob-nob 也有同樣的意思.成功或不成功.。 在與飲酒有關(guān)的詞匯中，hob or nob 可能指.自飲或敬酒，. 并從飲酒情況下使用的hob nob 擴(kuò)展到其他親密的場(chǎng)合