Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. pretentious, high and mighty.

1652		Laughing Mercury 6-12 Oct. 209: The Hogan Mogan, Pagan States of Holland.
1654		T. Ireland Momus Elenticus 2: Up last the Steeple his Deanship did climbe, In a Hogen Mogen pittifull Rythme, Like the Chimes of Carfax without tune or time.
1661		‘Medly of the Nations’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 128: Gods Sacrament, shall Hogen mogen States / Strike down their Topsailes unto puny powers.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Hogen-mogen [...] High and Mighty, the Sovereign States of Holland.
1679		Behn Feign’d Curtizans 8: [It] never worn but once, and that but by one High-German Prince—I have forgot his name—for the Devil can never remember a fart these dam’d Hogan-Mogan Titles.
1893		W.S. Walsh Literary Curiosities 497: Hugins and Muggins, the embodiment of vulgar pretension [...] derived from ‘Hogen and Mogen’.

2. of drink, strong.

1663		Dryden Wild Gallant I i: I was drunk; damnably drunk with ale; great hogan-mogan bloody ale.
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 558: ca. 1650–1730.

3. Dutch.

1654		J. Cleveland ‘Letter to a Friend’ in Poems 98: She copies out the Dutch, and to make good the parallel, they doubt not to instance in our Hogen Governours.
1673		M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 63: Affront too Hogen-Mpogen to Endure! / Tis time to box their Butter-Boxes sure.
1681		S. Colvil Whiggs Supplication Pt II 18: From the Emperor, or the Swede, Or Hogen Mogen Brother-hood.
1692		C. Gildon Dialogue from Hell of Cuckoldom 14: I am a Member [...] of the Hogan Mogen Common-wealth of Europe.
1707		N. Ward ‘The Humours of a Coffee-House’ Writings (1704) 284: The Hogan Troops Dishonour’d thus / [...] / In sorry Rags, without a Sous.