Hobnail

Synonyms for "hobnail" (22 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Strong matches (6)

Related words (11)

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

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coordinate

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derived

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derived from

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is a

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manner of

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related to

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Translations

10 translations across 7 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • кабър noun (short nail with a thick head)

Czech

1 entries
  • cvok noun (short nail with a thick head)

Finnish

1 entries
  • hokki noun (short nail with a thick head)

German

3 entries
  • Schuhnagel noun (short nail with a thick head)
  • Schuhzwecke noun (short nail with a thick head)
  • Stiefelnagel noun (short nail with a thick head)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • klinac noun (short nail with a thick head)

Spanish

1 entries
  • tachuela noun (short nail with a thick head)

Volapük

2 entries
  • jukakluf noun (short nail with a thick head)
  • jukaklufil noun (short nail with a thick head)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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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.

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There lay Tom; hobnail Tom! a bacon-munching, reckless, beer-swilling animal! and yet a man …

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a machine for the hobnailing of shoes

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Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.