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.