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now doubtless used only as a place-name, mostly with a short o-sound [hog··aland·]. *hagaland or -lendi. O.N. haglendi, n., pasture-land, No. hageland, hag(e)lende, n., id., Fær. hagalendi [hǣ··alæn·di], n., a piece of hill-pasture (for grazing).

hogalif [hō··galɩf·, -lif·, hog··a-, hɔg··a-] and hogaliv, -leave [hō··galɩv·, -li̇̄v (hog··a-, hɔg··a-)], sb. 1) leave, permission for a man, for a fixed payment, to cut peats and have liberty of grazing for cattle in the out-field, belonging to another, occas. also to cut tekk (coarse grass and heather for thatching or litter). 2) payment for the permission mentioned under 1; to pay h. comm. Sometimes with dropped final consonant: hogali [(hō··gali·), hog··ali·, hɔg··ali·]. — *haga-løyfi. The first part of the compd. is hoga, sb., pasture, out-field; the second part lif (liv) is a mingling of forms of O.N. løyfi (leyfi), n., (leave, permission), and Eng. leave.

hogelsku, hogelskju [hȯg··əlsᶄū·, -sᶄu·, (-skjū·, -skju·), hog··əlsᶄū·, -sᶄu·, (-skjū·, -skju·)], sb., adj. and adv.: I) sb. (collect.), 1) worn-out shoes, down at the heels, reported in the expr. “to geng [‘go’] in h.”; 2) worn-out condition, appl. to shoes; to geng de shune [‘shoes’] in h., to wear one’s shoes so long that they become out of shape. II) adj.: h. shune, worn-out shoes, down at the heels; to geng de shune h. = to geng de shune in h. (see prec.); de shune (or boots) is gane [‘are gone’] h., the shoes (boots) have lost their shape. III) adv.: to geng h. (wi’ de shune or boots), to wear shoes (boots) that are worn-out and down at the heels. — The pronunciation with (close) o-sound “hogəl-” is reported from N.I. (esp. Y. and Fe.) as used alternately with “hȯgəl-”; elsewhere more comm.: hȯgəl-. —

From Fe. is given a parallel form hoglaskou, -skjou [hȯg··lasᶄɔu·, hɔg··lasᶄɔu·] or hoglesk(j)ou [hɔg··ləsᶄɔu·], esp. in the exprs.: “to geng de shune in h.” (sb.), “to geng de shune h.” (adj.). — As a substantive the word is doubtless an old *hǫkulskór = *ǫkulskór, m., low shoes. “in hogelsku (hoglaskou)” prob.: *í hǫkulskóm (dat. pl.). As an adj. and adv. hogelsku, etc., may partly be a) O.N. hǫkulskúaðr, supposedly = ǫkulskúaðr, adj., wearing shoes, reaching (or above) the ankles, partly b) appear as a shortening of the expr. “in hogelsku”. to geng in h.: ganga í hǫkulskóm; “to geng h.” most prob. “ganga hǫkulskúaðr”. — Cf. og(g)elsku, sb.

hoger [hōgər], sb., 1) (bad) state or condition; shø made a puir h. o’ him, she did not look well after him (U.). 2) profit; result, esp. poor profit; unsuccessful result of something; hit cam’ till a puir h., it (the undertaking, errand, work) had a poor result (fairly comm.); he made a puir h. o’ it, he made a muddle of it (U.). — O.N. hagr, m., condition; advantage, etc. -er in hoger is doubtless the old nom. sign in the masc. gender which is grafted into the word. See hag², sb., which prop. is the same word, and to which hoger assimilates in a few phrases (he made a puir hoger o’ it = he made a puir hag o’ it).

hogg¹, hugg [(hɔg) hog] and hoggi, huggi [hɔgi, hogi], sb., a blow, push, only noted down in foll. meanings and collocations: a) a drubbing; chastisement; to get hoggi, huggi; N.I. [Fe.: hɔgi; Uⁿ.: hogi]. b) in the expr. “to play h.”, to play “tig”, a boy’s game: A gives B a blow or tap, after which B tries to catch A.; N.I. U.: hogg, hugg (Uⁿ.) and hoggi, huggi. In Fe.