hobnailedadj.
/ˈhɒbneɪld/ 1.
a. Furnished or set with hobnails; having the marks of hobnails.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > studded with nails or spikes
hobnailed1604
naily1604
clouted1611
sprigged1851
tacketed1864
tackety1864
slugged1906
1604 B. Jonson Particular Entertainm. at Althrope 277 in His Pt. Royall Entertainem. Come on Clownes..bestir your Hobnaild stumps.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires iii. 48 Some Rogue-Souldier, with his Hob-nail'd Shoos, Indents his Legs behind in bloody rows.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) viii. 175 The vocal music played on the planks by a pair of sturdy hobnailed boots.
b. hobnailed liver n. a cirrhotic liver, studded with projections like nail-heads.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > disorders of liver
hepatitis1699
liver rot1785
liver1805
gin liver1830
nutmeg liver1833
cirrhosis1839
Laennec's cirrhosis1839
gin drinker's liver1845
yellow atrophy1845
hobnailed liver1849
red atrophy1849
hobnail liver1882
fascioliasis1884
infectious hepatitis1891
distomatosis1892
distomiasis1892
hepatomegalia1893
infective hepatitis1896
spirit liver1896
hepatoma1905
hepatosplenomegalia1930
Pick's syndrome1932
serum hepatitis1943
Pick's syndrome1955
micronodular cirrhosis1960
macronodular cirrhosis1967
hep1975
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 711 [The liver] presents what is termed a hobnailed appearance.
1886 Standard 19 Jan. 3/5 He found a large patch of cirrhosis, commonly known as hobnailed liver.
2. transferred. Rustic, boorish, clownish.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] > rude or ignorant peasant
bacon-fed1598
hobnailed1599
pezantic1613
municipal1619
hobnail1624
swainish1642
bumpkinly1656
puttish1738
bumpkinish1778
hobbish1823
yokel1823
small-town1824
clodhopping1828
yokelish1886
hick1920
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 62 The hobnaylde houses of their carterly ancestrie.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom (Reeves) 33 The hob-nailed suiter prefers Joan the milkmaid before any of my lady's daughters.
1839 H. Rogers Ess. II. iii. 135 Our national proverbs..the manual and vade-mecum of ‘hobnailed’ philosophy.
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