Hobnailing
To kick the living shit out of someone during a fight.
Derived from hobnailed boots that are heavy durable boots with hobnails through the soles. If you kicked someone with a hobnailed boot, you'd likely do some damage.
Derived from hobnailed boots that are heavy durable boots with hobnails through the soles. If you kicked someone with a hobnailed boot, you'd likely do some damage.
Nigel gave Gerald a proper hobnailing that night and now Gerald eats through a straw
Hobnail
Having filthier, more enthusiastic sexual intercourse with your significant other at a hotel simply because you are not in your own home.
Joe gingerly pressed the king-sized hotel mattress with his index finger, grimacing as he felt it give easily; no doubt from years of couples' hobnailing upon it.
hobnail
of french origin; le hob
a hobnail is a type of french salad dressing, mainly used by those in prison.
a hobnail is a type of french salad dressing, mainly used by those in prison.
John poured the hobnail slowly over food, licking his lips menacingly.
Hobnailing
To shamelessly pander for a Pulitzer or other, similar award, especially by choosing as one's theme, certain hot-button social issues that the committee would likely feel obliged to vote for. (Possibly a conflation of Hobbes' "war of all against all" with Machiavelli's advice to give lip-service to virtue but act viciously.)
"A comic strip about breast cancer? That's just hobnailing!"