hobnailed, a.
(ˈhɒbneɪld)
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
1. Furnished or set with hobnails; having the marks of hobnails.
| 1603 B. Jonson Satyr Wks. (Rtldg.) 538/2 Come on, clowns..bestir your hob-nail'd stumps. 1693 Dryden Juvenal's Sat. iii. 399 Some rogue-soldier, with his hob-nail'd shoes, Indents his legs behind in bloody rows. 1871 L. Stephen Playgr. Europe viii. (1894) 175 The vocal music played on the planks by a pair of sturdy hobnailed boots. |
b. hobnailed liver: a cirrhotic liver, studded with projections like nail-heads.
| 1847–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 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. transf. Rustic, boorish, clownish.
| 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 62 The hobnaylde houses of their carterly ancestrie. 1683 Kennett Erasm. on Folly (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. |