hobnob

詳細解釋：

hob.nob

v.intr.（不及物動詞）
hob.nobbed,hob.nob.bing,hob.nobs
To associate familiarly:
親切交談：
例句：
hobnobs with the executives.
與高級官員們親切交談

來源：
From the phrase (drink) hob or nob [(toast) one another alternately]
源自片語 (drink) hob or nob [輪流（敬酒）]
from obsolete and dialectal hab nab [have or have not]
源自 廢語和方言 hab nab [有或沒有]
probably Middle English habbe [have] * see have
可能為 中古英文 habbe [有] *參見 have
Middle English nabbe contraction of ne habbe [have not] Old English ne [not] * see not habbe [have]
中古英文 nabbe ne habbe的縮寫 [沒有] 古英文 ne [否，無] *參見 not habbe [有]

<注釋>The fact that hobnobbing with our social betters may at times be a hit-or-miss propositionhas an etymological justification.The verbhobnob originally meant .to drink together. and occurred as a varying phrase,hob or nob, hob-a-nob, or hob and nob, the first of which is recorded in 7'3.This phrasal form reflects the origins of the verb in similar phrasesthat were used when two people were toasting each other.The probable reason that the phrases were so used is thathob is a variant of hab, asnob is of nab, and that these in turn are probably forms of have and its negative. In Middle English, for example, one finds the formshabbe, .to have,. and nabbe, .not to have.. Hab or nab, or simply hab nab, thus meant .get or lose, hit or miss,. and the varianthob-nob also meant .hit or miss.. Used in the drinking phrase,hob or nob would have probably meant .give or take,. and from a drinking situationhob nob spread to other forms of chumminess.
與社會地位比我們高的人親切交談有時候是一種隨隨便便的行為，這種事實是有語源學上的根據的。動詞hobnob 的初義為.一起喝酒.， 並有許多變體，如hob or nob ， hob-a-nob 或 hob and nob ， 其中第一個首見於7'3年的記錄中。這種詞組構成反應了類似詞組中的動詞來源，他們都用於兩個人互相敬酒的情況。這種詞組如此使用的原因可能因為hob 是 hab 的變體， 而nob 是 nab 的變體，而且這兩者又可能是 have 和其否定式的變體。 例如人們在中古英文中可發現habbe .有.和 nabbe .沒有.的形式。 Hab or nab 或簡作 hab nab， 就指.得到或失去，成功或不成功.， 其變體hob-nob 也有同樣的意思.成功或不成功.。 在與飲酒有關的辭彙中，hob or nob 可能指.自飲或敬酒，. 並從飲酒情況下使用的hob nob 擴展到其他親密的場合