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† hobbinoll, hobinoll Obs.
Also hobbinol, -all, -old, hobinall, hobynoll, hobnol.
[app. f. Hob, Hobby, or Hobbin (see prec.) app. with reference to the sense ‘rustic’ of Hob n.1 + noll head, pate, noddle (or ? Noll = Oliver): cf. also hoball.]
The name of a shepherd in Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar; hence, A countryman, rustic, boor.
[1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Apr. Argt., The speakers herein be Hobbinoll and Thenott, two shepheardes. 1579E. K. Gloss. Ibid. Jan., Hobbinol is a fained country name, whereby..seemeth to be hidden the person of some his very speciall and most familiar freend.] 1600Maides Metam. iv. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 149 So Hobinoll the plowman calls his dame. 1636Heywood Love's Mistris ii. Wks. 1874 V. 115 This hobinall, this rusticke, this base clowne. a1652Brome Queen & Conc. iv. v. Wks. 1873 II. 92 Indeed I do not like..the countenances of these Hobnols. [1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 501/1 To the student of Spenser he [Gabriel Harvey] is familiar..as the Hobbinol who wrote the poem prefixed to the ‘Faerie Queen’. ] |