Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun High flavor; strong scent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete High flavor; strong scent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a strong, unpleasant
smell
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wondrich wrote a great little summary of the "hogo"
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Max Watman 2010
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But as a study of the brave man who is almost more braggart than brave, of the generous man who will sacrifice not only generosity but bare justice to "a hogo of honour," he is admirable, and up to his time almost unique.
Amelia — Volume 1 Henry Fielding 1730
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But as a study of the brave man who is almost more braggart than brave, of the generous man who will sacrifice not only generosity but bare justice to "a hogo of honour," he is admirable, and up to his time almost unique.
Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730
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Goat (A) finds the terrible downwind hogo of Goat (B) alluring, all other things being equal
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'Sdeath the flavour of a pair of Englifti lips! how delicious! whilft the breath of the Italians and French have fuch a damn'd hogo, they turn my fqeamifh ftomach!
The miscellaneous works of Richard Linnecar, of Wakefield 1789
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