2. Hence a wanton. [The feast is celebrated with much drink and not a little license.]
Hogo, subs. (old).—A flavour; an aroma; a relish. Hence, in irony, and by corruption, a stink. Cf., Fogo. [From Fr., haut goût.] See High, sense 2.
1569. Erasmus, Trans. Praise of Folly, p. 13 [1709]. Pleasure that haut-goust of Folly.
1639–61. Rump Songs. ‘A Vindication of the Rump.’ Oh! what a Hogo was there. [[329]]
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.