1645. Howell, Letters, V., xxxviii., p. 42. He can marinat fish, make gellies, and is excellent for a pickant sawce, and the haugou.
1653. Walton, Compleat Angler, I., ch. vii. To give the sawce a hogoe let the dish (into which you let the Pike fall) be rubed with it [garlick],
1656. Choyce Drollery, p. 34. And why not say a word or two Of she that's just? witnesse all who Have ever been at thy ho-go.
1663. Killigrew, The Parson's Wedding, III., 2 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 451). We'll work ourselves into such a sauce as you can never surfeit on, and yet no hogough.
1667. Cowley, Government of Oliver Cromwell, Prose Works (Pickering, 1826), 94. Cromwell . . . found out the true hogo of this pleasure, and rejoiced in the extravagance of his ways.
1672. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, ii., 1. She has . . . . no more teeth left than such as give a haut gout to her breath.
1686. Twelve Ingenious Characters. A bad husband is an inconsiderate piece of sottish extravagance; for though he consist of several ill ingredients, yet still good fellowship is the causa sine qua non, and gives him the ho-go.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hogo.
1705-7. Ward, Hudibras Redivivus, Vol. I., Pt. vi., p. 4. Most stinking meat, Toss'd up with leeks into Raggoo, To overcome the unsav'ry hogo.
1718. Durfey, Pills, iii., 177. 'Let's drink and be merry.' Your most Beautiful Bit, that hath all Eyes upon her, That her Honesty sells for a hogo of Honour.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hogo . . . it has a confounded hogo, it stinks confoundedly.
Hogshead. To couch a hogshead,
verb. phr. (Old Cant).—See
quot. For synonyms, see Balmy.
1567. Harman, Caveat (1814), p. 66. To couch a hogshead: to ly downe and slepe. Ibid, I couched a hogshead in a skypper this darkemans.
Hog-shearing, subs. (old).—Much
ado about nothing; great cry and
little wool.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hog. Labour in vain, which the Latines express by Goats-wooll, as the English by the shearing of hoggs.
HOGS-NORTON. To have been
born at Hogs-Norton, verb,
phr. (old).—To be ill-mannered.
d. 1666. Howell, Eng. Proverbs, p. 16. I think thou wast born at Hoggs-Norton, where piggs play upon the organs.
1676. Marvel, Mr. Smirke [Grosart], iv., p. 89. A pair of organs of cats which he had done well to have made the pigs at Hogs-Norton play on.
Hogstye of Venus, subs. phr.
(venery).—See quot. For synonyms,
see Monosyllable.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Porcile di venere, the hog-stye of Venus, a womans privities or geare.
Hog-wash, subs, (common).—1.
Bad liquor; specifically, rot-gut
(q.v.).
2. (journalists').—Worthless newspaper matter; slush, swash, and flub-dub(q.v.).
Hoi polloi, subs. phr. (university).
The candidates for ordinary
degrees. [From the Greek.] Cf.,
Gulf.
Hoist, subs. (old).—A shoplifter;
also a confederate hoisting
or helping a thief to reach an open
window. The Hoist = shoplifting.
To go upon the hoist
= to enter a house by an open
window.
1796. Grose, Vulg. Tongue (3rd Ed.), s.v. Hoist. This is done by the assistance of a confederate called the hoist, who leans his head against the wall, making his back a kind of step or ascent.—Grose.
1819. Vaux, Cant. Dict. Hoist, the game of shop-lifting is called the hoist; a person expert at this practice is said to be a good hoist.
