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.


