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. In Praise of Folly, p. 13 [1709]. Pleasure, that HAUTGOUST of Folly.

  1639–61.  Rump Songs, ‘A Vindication of the Rump.’ Oh! what a HOGO was there.

  1645.  HOWELL, Familiar Letters, V., xxxviii., p. 42. He can marinat fish, make gellies, and is excellent for a pickant sawce, and the HAUGOU.

  1653.  WALTON, The 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.

  1663.  KILLIGREW, The Parson’s Wedding, iii., 2 (DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 451). We’ll work ourselves into such a sauce as you can never surfeit on, so poignant, and yet no HAUT GOÛT.

  d. 1667.  A. COWLEY, The Government of Oliver Cromwell, Prose Works (Pickering, 1826), 94. Cromwell … found out the true HOUT GOUST 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.

  1678.  W. WINSTANLEY, The Character of a Bad Husband.. A bad husband is an inconsiderate piece of sottish extravagance; for though he consists of several ill-ingredients, yet still good-fellowship is the causa sine quâ non, and gives him the HO-GO.

  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HOGO.

  1705–7.  WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, Vol. I., Pt. vi., p. 4.

  1718.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, iii., 177. ‘Let’s drink and be merry.’

  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. HOGO. … it has a confounded HOGO; it stinks confoundedly.