1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Hod.  Brother Hod; a familiar name for a bricklayer’s
  labourer:  from the hod which is used for carrying bricks and
  mortar.

HODDY DODDY, all A-se and no body.  A short clumsy
  person, either male or female.

Hodge.  An abbreviation of Roger:  a general name for a
  country booby.

Hodge podge.  An irregular mixture of numerous things.

HODMANDODS.  Snails in their shells.

Hog.  A shilling.  To drive one’s hogs; to snore:  the noise
  made by some persons in snoring, being not much unlike
  the notes of that animal.  He has brought his hogs to a
  fine market; a saying of any one who has been remarkably
  successful in his affairs, and is spoken ironically to signify
  the contrary.  A hog in armour; an awkward or mean
  looking man or woman, finely dressed, is said to look like
  a hog in armour.  To hog a horse’s mane; to cut it short,
  so that the ends of the hair stick up like hog’s bristles. 
  Jonian hogs; an appellation given to the members of St.
  John’s College, Cambridge.

Hog grubber.  A mean stingy fellow.

Hoggish.  Rude, unmannerly, filthy.

HOGO.  Corruption of haut goust, high taste, or flavour;
  commonly said of flesh somewhat tainted.  It has a
  confounded hogo; it stinks confoundedly.

Hoist. To go upon the hoist; to get into windows
  accidentally left open:  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.

Hoisting.  A ludicrous ceremony formerly performed on
  every soldier, the first time he appeared in the field after
  being married; it was thus managed:  As soon as the
  regiment, or company, had grounded their arms to rest a
  while, three or four men of the same company to which
  the bridegroom belonged, seized upon him, and putting a
  couple of bayonets out of the two corners of his hat, to
  represent horns, it was placed on his head, the back part
  foremost.  He was then hoisted on the shoulders of two
  strong fellows, and carried round the arms, a drum and fife
  beating and playing the pioneers call, named Round Heads
  and Cuckolds, but on this occasion styled the Cuckold’s
  March; in passing the colours, he was to take off his hat: 
  this, in some regiments, was practised by the officers on
  their brethren, Hoisting, among pickpockets, is, setting
  a man on his head, that his money, watch, &c. may fall
  out of his pockets; these they pick up, and hold to be
  no robbery.  See reversed.

HOITY-toity.  A hoity-toity wench; a giddy, thoughtless,
  romping girl.

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