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Definition: Hob |
HobNoun1. (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings. 2. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous. 3. A hard steel edge tool used to cut gears. 4. A shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm. Verb1. Cut with a hob. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hob" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | (House Office Building) Each of three office buildings of the United States House of Representatives. (references) |
Literature | Hob of a grate. From the Anglo-Saxon verb habban (to hold). The chimney-corner, where at one time a settle stood on each side, was also called "the hob." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | HOB, or HOBBINOL, a clown. HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red. This foo. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Anthony van Hoboken (1887 - 1983) was a Dutch musicologist. He was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and died in Zurich, Switzerland.Hoboken is best known for his J. Haydn, Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (published 1957) a catalogue of the compositions of Joseph Haydn. Haydn's works are often referred to by their "Hoboken number" (usually abbreviated to "Hob" or just "H"), taken from this catalogue.
Unlike Ludwig von Köchel's catalogue of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's works, or Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Franz Schubert's works, which are both arranged chronologically by date of composition, Hoboken's catalogue, like Wolfgang Schmieder's catalogue of Johann Sebastian Bach's works, is arranged by form of work. All the symphonies, for example, are in category I, all string quartets are in category III, piano sonatas are in category XVI, and so on.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anthony van Hoboken."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HOB | English | Hydroxybenzol | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: HobSynonyms: brownie (n), elf (n), goblin (n), gremlin (n), hobgoblin (n), imp (n), pixie (n), pixy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Celebration | Pledge, drink to, toast, hob and nob. |
Courtesy | Salute; embrace; (endearment); kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and nob; move to, nod to; smile upon. |
Furnace | Fireplace, gas fireplace; coal fire, wood fire; fire-dog, fire-irons; grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose; poker, tongs, shovel, ashpan, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; ashdrop; frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog. |
Support | Board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack; mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hob |
| Specialty definitions using "hob": GEAR HOBBER SET-UP OPERATOR ♦ Hob Nob, HOBBING, hobbing-machine operator, HOBBING-PRESS OPERATOR, HOBBINOL, Hob's Pound, Hodge ♦ NOB ♦ regrinding cutter blades ♦ shank type hob ♦ worm sheel hob. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hob": Hub. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Hob" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (heaved, hove, lifted). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hob wa khyana (1968) Tarik El Hob (2001) We leab we gad we hob Dehk (1993) Genoun el hob (1977) | |
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Consumer Goods | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hob and Stage Doctor. / Printed by W. Davison, Alnwick. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hob Knobs" by Eoghan Mcnally Commentary: "Knobs on the cooker." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But the kettle would be on the hob to make punch |
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| "Hob" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.70% of the time. "Hob" is used about 139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.7% | 108 | 31,306 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.71% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.88% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 139 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Czech Republic | Keramika Horni Briza (HOB) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "hob": hob and nob ♦ play hob with ♦ raise hob with ♦ shank type hob ♦ To play hob ♦ worm sheel hob. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hob": hob-a-nob, hob-nailed, hob-nails, hob-nob, hob-nobbed, hob-nobbing, hob-nobs. | |
Ending with "hob": ceramic-hob. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hob | 259 | hob sunset | 3 |
hob knob | 20 | border collies hob nob | 3 |
hob knob inn | 12 | com hob | 3 |
hob nob | 11 | hob presale | 3 |
chicago hob | 11 | etown.com hob | 2 |
anaheim hob | 10 | cutter hob | 2 |
beach hob myrtle | 9 | ceramic hob | 2 |
goblin hob | 7 | beach hob myrtle sc | 2 |
hob orlando | 7 | boxing hob | 2 |
hob new orleans | 7 | hob induction | 2 |
hob las vegas | 5 | cooker hob | 2 |
electric hob | 5 | anyone hob nob | 2 |
hob nob restaurant | 4 | hob entertainment | 2 |
concert hob | 4 | hob inn knob marthas vineyard | 2 |
hill hob nob | 3 | hob nail | 2 |
e.com hob | 3 | hob hollywood | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "hob"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vitore (hobgoblin), lugat (basilisk, bogey, boggard, Bogle, cockatrice, fright, hobgoblin, spectre, turn-skin), kunj (axle pin, dowel, key, linchpin, peg, picket, pin, pintle, piquet, Spike, spile, spline, tenon, toggle), gogol (bogy, bugaboo, bugbear, hobgoblin, scarecrow), anë vatre. (various references) | |
Arabic | صفيحة (can, gill, plate, platelet, scoop, tablet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | червячна фреза, колче което се цели при игри, кабър за подковаване на обуща (hobnail), зъл дух (demon, hobgoblin, incubus, sprite), подковавам с кабъри, плашило (bogey, fright, golliwog, grotesque, hobgoblin, scarecrow), дяволче (hobgoblin, imp). (various references) | |
Chinese | 滚刀. (various references) | |
Czech | výènìlek (jut, prominence, prominency, protrusion, protuberance, snag), plotna sporáku, ohřívací police. (various references) | |
Danish | snekkefraeser (worm hob), skaftsnekkefræser (shank type hob, worm sheel hob). (various references) | |
Dutch | wormfrees (worm hob), schacht-wormfrees (shank type hob, worm sheel hob). (various references) | |
Farsi | میخ سرپهن زدن , گل میخ زدن , حقه (Bob, Intake, Knack, Monkeyshine, Shift, Trick), سنبه قالب , شوخی فریب امیز (Hoax, Humbug), باسنبه یامیله بریدن , بادندانه ماشین وغیره بریدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | varsivierintäjyrsin (shank type hob, worm sheel hob), kierukkapyörän varsivierintäjyrsin (shank type hob, worm sheel hob). (various references) | |
French | plaque. (various references) | |
German | kochfeld, kamineneinsatz. (various references) | |
Greek | κόβω με κοπτικό εργαλείο, καρφώνω σόλεσ με πρόκεσ, καλικάντζαροσ (gnome, gobblin), ξωτικό (elf, hobgoblin, pixy, puck, sprite), προεξοχή (bulge, extrusion, jag, jute, knob, projection, prominence, prominency, protrusion, ramus, salience, saliency, salient), φασαρία (ado, bedlam, bustle, commotion, din, fracas, fuss, hassle, nuisance, pother, rowdiness, trouble), ήλοσ (nail), τελώνιο (demon, genie), δαιμόνιο (daemon, demon, elf, imp, puck). (various references) | |
Hungarian | paraszt (boor, churl, cottager, farmer, goop, hayseed, hick, peasant, ploughman, rustic, ryot, tacky, wooly-back, yokel), főzőlap (burner, hotplate). (various references) | |
Italian | piastra (hot plate, piaster, plate, slab). (various references) | |
Korean | 호브. (various references) | |
Manx | hub. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | travessura (archness, caper, dido, frisk, gambade, mischief, prank, waggery), prejuzo (harm, havoc, hurt, ill, impairment, injury), prateleira (cabinet, hack, lay-over, rack, shelf, stand, tier), fantasma (apparition, bogle, bugaboo, bugbear, eidolon, golliwog, haunt, leprechaun, phantasm, phantom, shadow, spectre, spirit, spook, wraith), duende (bogle, elf, elfin, hobgoblin, imp, leprechaun, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite). (various references) | |
Romanian | talpã (base, basis, runner, shoe, slipper, sole), parte a sobei, parte a cãminului, fişã (card, check, coin, counter), cap de frezat, caia (calk, calkin, hobnail, horseshoe nail). (various references) | |
Russian | ступица (boss, hub, nave), червячная фреза, втулка (boss, bung, bushing, collar, nave, pad, peg, quill, sleeve, socket, spigot, spile, tampion, vent-peg), бесконечный винт (worm). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bauk (bogey, bogy, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, hobgoblin). (various references) | |
Spanish | quemador (arsonist, arsonists, burner, cremator), duende (brownie, daemon, duende, elf, goblin, hobgoblin, leprechaun, poltergeist, puck, sprite). (various references) | |
Swedish | kokplatta (hotplate). (various references) | |
Thai | เทวดาร่างเล็ก, นิสัยเจ้าเล่ห์, หมุดที่ใช้เล่นในกีฬา quoits. (various references) | |
Turkish | ocak ızgarası, kalıp makinesi (hobbing machine), iri başlı çivi (door nail, hobnail, stud), gulyabani (bogey, bogie, bogy, ghoul, Goblin), freze bıçağı, cin (clever person, demon, elf, Geneva, genie, gin, gnome, Goblin, gremlin, hobgoblin, Hollands, jinnee, puck, sprite, white satin), öcü (bogy, bogy man, bugaboo, bugbear, golliwog). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | втулка (barrel, bung, collet, hub, liner, nave, spigot, spile, tap), полоз (skate, skid). (various references) | |
Welsh | pentan (abutment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hob": hobbed, hobbies, hobbing, hobbit, hobbits, hobble, hobblebush, hobblebushes, hobbled, hobbledehoy, hobbledehoys, hobbler, hobblers, hobbles, hobbling, hobby, hobbyhorse, hobbyhorses, hobbyist, hobbyists, hobgoblin, hobgoblins, hoblike, hobnail, hobnailed, hobnailing, hobnails, hobnob, hobnobbed, hobnobber, hobnobbers, hobnobbing, hobnobs, hobo, hoboed, hoboes, hoboing, hoboism, hoboisms, hobos, hobs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hob": acrophobe, acrophobes, acrophobia, acrophobias, agoraphobe, agoraphobes, agoraphobia, agoraphobias, agoraphobic, agoraphobics, ailurophobe, ailurophobes, ailurophobia, ailurophobias, chromophobe, claustrophobe, claustrophobes, claustrophobia, claustrophobias, claustrophobic, claustrophobically, cohobate, cohobated, cohobates, cohobating, computerphobe, computerphobes, computerphobia, computerphobias, computerphobic, dhobi, dhobis, homophobe, homophobes, homophobia, homophobias, homophobic, hydrophobia, hydrophobias, hydrophobic, hydrophobicities, hydrophobicity, lymphoblast, lymphoblastic, lymphoblasts, lyophobic, negrophobe, negrophobes, negrophobia, negrophobias, opisthobranch. (additional references) | |
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"Hob" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hab, haib, havb, hb, hbo, hcb, Hcba, hdb, Hdo, heb, heib, hepb, hgb, hiab, hib, Hiba, hibd, Hiob, hoab, Hobb, hobe, hobi, hoby, hof, hoh, Hoiby, hoj, honbl, hoq, Hosby, hou, houby, hov, hoz, huab, hubb, hube, hubf, hubi, hvo, Khobi, Ohv, Phab, thob, thoob. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hob" (pronounced hÄ"b) |
| 2 | -Ä" b | blob, Bob, cob, Cobb, glob, gob, job, knob, lob, Miserables, mob, Rob, slob, snob, sob, swab, throb. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-h-o" | |
-1 letter: bo, ho, oh. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-h-o" | |
+1 letter: bosh, both, hobo, hobs. | |
+2 letters: abhor, abmho, abohm, bhoot, boche, bohea, booth, botch, bothy, bough, broth, dhobi, hobby, hobos, obeah, rhomb, throb. | |
+3 letters: abhors, abmhos, abohms, barhop, bathos, behold, behoof, behove, behowl, bhoots, bishop, blotch, boches, boheas, bohunk, bolshy, boohoo, booths, borsch, borsht, boshes, botchy, bother, boughs, bought, boyish, broach, broche, brooch, broths, brothy, dhobis, haboob, harbor, hatbox, hobbed, hobbit, hobble, hobnob, hoboed, hoboes, hombre, hotbed, hotbox, kibosh, kybosh, obeahs, phobia, phobic, phoebe, rhebok, rhombi, rhombs, throbs. | |
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