TO HAVE BEEN BORN AT HOGS-NORTON, verb. phr. (old).—To be ill-mannered.
d. 1666. HOWELL, English Proverbs, p. 16. I think thou wast BORN AT HOGGS-NORTON, where piggs play upon the organs.
1676. MARVELL, Mr. Smirke [GROSART], iv., p. 89. A pair of organs of cats which he had done well to have made the pigs at HOGS-NORTON play on.
