hobnob

Etymology

Comes from hob and nob, the archaic phrase hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”), which developed from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”). That in turn goes back to Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize”)) combined with nabban (“to not have”) (itself from ne, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”), plus habban).