1594. Nashe, Unf. Trav., 106 [Chiswick Press, 1891.] No other apte meanes had this poore shee captived Cicely to worke her hoddy peake husband a proportionable plague to his jealously.
Hodge, subs. (colloquial).—A farm
labourer; a rustic.
1589. Greene, Menaphon, p. 58 [ed. Arber, 1880]. These Arcadians are giuen to take the benefit of euerie Hodge.
1675. A. Marvel, Satire. Hodge's Vision from the Monument. [Title.]
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hodge, a Country Clown, also Roger.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1791. Smart, Fables, xiii., 27. Is that the care (quoth Hodge)? O rare!
1880. Richard Jefferies, Hodge and his Masters. [Title.]
1884. Mrs. Craik, in Eng. Ill. Mag., Mar., p. 356. Quite different from the bovine, agricultural Hodge of the midland counties.
1893. National Observer, 25 Feb., ix., 358. 'Pay me an infinitesimal sum,' Lord Winchilsea says (in effect) to Hodge, 'and you shall have a weekly newspaper for nothing.'
Hodge-podge (or Hotch-potch),
subs. (old: now recognised).—A
mixture; a medley. Sp., commistrajo.
See Hotch-potch.
1553-99. Spenser, State of Ireland. They have made our English tongue a galimaufrey, or hodgepodge of all other peeches.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 199. Some Cillier-like Saint, . . . Had rak'd a hodg podg for the Devil.
1726. Vanbrugh, Journey to London. They were all got into a sort of hodge-podge argument for the good of the nation which I did not well understand.
d. 1764. Lloyd, Poems (774), 'A Tale.' Was ever such an hodge-podge seen.
1786. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Hodman, (Oxford Univ.).—A
scholar from Westminster School
admitted to Christ Church College,
Oxford.
1728. Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v. Hodman.
HODMANDOD, subs. (old).—1. A
snail in his shell—Bacon. See
Doddy.
1663. Killigrew, The Parson's Wedding, v., 4 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 525). Painted snails with houses on their backs, and horns as big as Dutch cows. . . . Can any woman be honest that lets such hodmandods crawl o'er her virgin breast and belly?
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1728. Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue. s.v.
2. (old).—A Hottentot.
1686. Captain Cowley in Harris Voyages, i., 82. We walked, moreover, without the town to the villages inhabited by the hodmandods, to view their nasty bodies.
Hoe. To hoe in (American
Univ.).—To work with vigour;
to swot (q.v.).
To hoe one's own row, verb. phr. (American).—To do one's own work.
Hard row to hoe. See Hard Row.
Hoe-down, subs. (American).—A
negro dance; a breakdown
(q.v.).
Hog, subs. (old).—1. A shilling:
also a sixpence: and (in America)
a ten-cent piece. For synonyms,
see Blow. Half-a-hog = sixpence,
or five-cent piece.
1688. Shadwell, Squire of Alsatia, s.v. Hog, a shilling.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hog, You Darkman Budge, will you Fence your hog at the next Boozing ken?
