Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hobnailed adj.

[hobnail n.]

rustic, boorish.

[UK]Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour characters: Sordido, a wretched hobnailed chuff.
[UK]J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie F5: A Plaine Country Fellow [...] Hee [...] has some thrifty Hobnaile Prouerbs to clout his discourse.