Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hobnail liver

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English

Syllables: hob-nail liv-er
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A shrunken liver, hard, and covered with hobnail-like projections (nodules), resulting from cirrhosis.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"let the teacher show the relation between intemperance, crime, and immorality, and how intemperance results from imitation, habit, disease, and poverty, rather than spend her time in endeavoring to detail the dire effects of alcohol upon every tissue of the body, and to picture upon the child's mind what a drunkard's stomach looks like, or what a hob-nail liver is."

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

hobnail livers (plural)

Questions

What does hobnail liver mean?: A shrunken liver, hard, and covered with hobnail-like projections (nodules), resulting from cirrhosis.

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