1884. Mrs. Craik, in Eng. Ill. Mag., Mar., p. 356. Quite different
from the bovine, agricultural Hodge of the midland counties.
1893. National Observer, 25 Feb., ix., 358. ‘Pay me an
infinitesimal sum,’ Lord Winchilsea says (in effect) to Hodge, ‘and
you shall have a weekly newspaper for nothing.’
Hodge-podge (or Hotch-potch), subs. (old: now recognised).—A mixture; a
medley. Sp., commistrajo. See Hotch-potch.
1553–99. Spenser, State of Ireland. They have made our English
tongue a galimaufrey, or hodgepodge of all other speeches.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 199. Some Collier-like Saint, ...
Had rak’d a hodg podg for the Devil.
1726. Vanbrugh, Journey to London. They were all got into a sort of
hodge-podge argument for the good of the nation which I did not
well understand.
d. 1764. Lloyd, Poems (774), ‘A Tale.’ Was ever such an hodge-podge
seen.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Hodman, (Oxford Univ.).—A scholar from Westminster School admitted to
Christ Church College, Oxford.
1728. Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v. Hodman.
Hodmandod, subs. (old).—1. A snail in his shell—Bacon. See Doddy.
1663. Killigrew, The Parson’s Wedding, v., 4 (Dodsley, Old Plays,
4th ed., 1875, xiv., 525). Painted snails with houses on their
backs, and horns as big as Dutch cows.... Can any woman be honest
that lets such hodmandods crawl o’er her virgin breast and belly?
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1728. Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.