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My dear Miss Loffler,

  You have the advantage of me.  I cannot recollect where, in "Pickwick
Papers," I use the term "hob and nob."  But I am in no doubt what it usually
signifies for me.  I use it, specifically, to indicate drinking together,
with clinking of glasses, toasts, and other ceremonies.  More generally, it
suggests pleasant intimacy together.
  May I hope this answers your inquiry and atones for my forgetfulness?

Faithfully yours,


Charles Dickens
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>Other than what is indicated in the Oxford English Dictionary,
>what did Dickens mean by the term "hob and nob" in Pickwick?
>
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