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hob

noun as in fairy

noun as in fireplace

noun as in pixie

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Example Sentences

The energy, generated from food and garden waste from the surrounding houses, is supplied to the center’s kitchen hob through a pipe.

Can I go hob-nob, maybe make some sweet business connections?

He loved hob-nobbing with the great and not-so-great, his emotions vulnerable to flattery—and rejection.

One evening at tea, a copper kettle, with hot water, stood on the hob.

And he's been hob-nobbing with some old friends who have turned up at one of the big hotels—I forget which.

In the winter Snow-white lit the fire and hung the kettle on the hob.

For he too was famous in his own sphere; and in the drawing-room of Wilkins's one celebrity was hob-nobbing with another!

This comes of your princesses, that turn the world upside down, and demean themselves to hob and nob with these black baldicoots!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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