1714. Memoirs of John Hall (4th Ed.), p. 12, s.v.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v. Half a Hog, Six-Pence.
1809-12. Miss Edgeworth, Ennui, ch. vi. 'It's only a tester or a hog they want your honour to give 'em, to drink your honour's health,' said Paddy. 'A hog to drink my health?' 'Ay, that is a thirteen, plase your honour; all as one as an English shilling.'
1825. Egan, Life of an Actor, ch. iv. You shall have . . . eighteen hog a week, and a benefit which never fails.
1842. Thackeray, Cox's Diary in Comic Almanack, p. 237. Do you think I'm a-going to kill my horses, and break my precious back, and bust my carriage, and carry you, and your kids, and your traps, for six hog?
1851-61. H. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, vol. i., p. 529. The slang phrases are constantly used by the street lads; thus a sixpence is a 'tanner'; a shilling a 'bob,' or a hog. . . . The collections of coin dealers amply show, that the figure of a hog was anciently placed on a small silver coin.
1857. Mrs. Mathews, Tea Table Talk, p. 207. The shopwoman satisfied Suett after her fashion, that his little lump of Suett had absorbed flour and lard (pastry) to the amount of what her queer customer would have termed a hog.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Hog, a ten-cent piece.
2. (colloquial).—A foul-mouthed blackguard; a dirty feeder. Also, a common glutton.
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Ciro, a hogge, a swine, a filthie fellowe.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, p. 69. 'Arry's a hog when he feeds.
3. (Cambridge Univ.: obsolete).—A student of St. John's. Also, Johnian Hog. See Crackle, Bridge of Grunts, and Isthmus of Suez.
1690. Diary of Abraham de la Pryme (Surtees Society, No. 54), quoted in Notes and Queries, 6, S. xi., 328. For us Jonians are called abusively hoggs.
1795. Gent. Mag., lxv., 22. The Johnian hogs were originally remarkable on account of the squalid figures and low habits of the students, and especially of the sizars of Saint John's College. [Another story of how name originated is given in detail in Gent. Mag. (1795), lxv., 107.]
1889. Whibley, In Cap and Gown, p. 28. An obsolete name for members of St. John's College, Cambridge.
4. (old Scots').—A yearling sheep.
1796. Burns, Poems. What will I do gin my hoggie die, my joy, my friend, my hoggie.
5. (American).—An inhabitant of Chicago. [That city being a notable pig-breeding and pork-packing centre.]
6. (old).—A Hampshireman.
1770. Lord Hailes, Ancient Scottish Poems, 'Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins.' Note on line 115. And thus his ill-bred raillery will be like that of Essex calves, hampshire hogs, Middlesex mongrels, Norfolk dumplings, Welsh goats, etc.
Verb (American). .—1. To cheat; to humbug; to gammon (q.v.).
1867. Browne (Artemus Ward). 'Among the Mormons, ii., 10. Go my son, and Hog the public.
2. (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.
3. (stables).—To cut short; e.g., to hog a horse's mane.
A hog in armour, subs. phr. (old).—A lout in fine clothes. Also a Jack-in-office; Hog-in-togs = (in America) a well-dressed loafer. [Hog = Hodge (q.v.), a rustic]
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hog . . . an awkward, or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed, is said to look like a hog in armour.
