Hobnailed

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Furnished with hobnails.
  • Wearing hobnailed shoes; hence, clumsy; countrified; rough.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. See with hobnails, as a shoe.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Describing something that has hobnails.
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  • adjective. marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails
  • Word Usage
    "Markets set borrowing rates, voters turn out politicians who push them too far, and plans to land with hobnailed boots on profligate debtor nations founder on two facts."
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