English Dictionary

hobnail

noun

A short nail with a thick head, typically used in boot soles. / (obsolete) A clownish person; a rustic.

He stepped on a hobnail and hurt his foot.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(obsolete) A clownish person; a rustic.

Next, the word Politician is not us'd to his maw, and therupon he plays the most notorious hobbihors, jesting and frisking in the luxury of his non-sense with such poor fetches to cog a laughter from us, that no antic hobnaile at a Morris, but is more hansomly facetious.