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More Word of the Day wonderfulness. Of course we all know this word, but I'd never seen its etymology before. Interesting.

Word of the Day for Saturday September 21, 2002

hobnob \HAHB-nahb\, intransitive verb:
To associate familiarly.

Hobnob comes from an eariler phrase, to hob or nob, meaning
"to drink together, taking turns toasting one another,"
probably from Middle English habbe "to have" and nabbe, a
contraction of ne + habbe, "to have not," hence, "to have and
have not, to give and take."