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.