Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a stench.

1656		in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 34: And why not say a word or two, / Or she that’s just? witnesse all who / Have ever been at thy ho-go.
1672		Wycherley Love in a Wood II i: She [has] no more Teeth left, than such as give a Haust-goust to her breath.
1672		M. Atkins Cataplus 18: Where muddy Acheron from sink / Casts hogo forth and noysome stink.
1683		Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 105: What man would […] discompose the hole frame of Natures habitation for a Hogo in his Pork.
1690		‘Teague’ Teagueland Jests I 39: When it [i.e. a venison pasty] was first cut up, dere did come shush an Echo from it, dat it wash ready to strike me down. Some Moderns call it a Hogo.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Hogo for Haut Goust, a strong Scent, also a high Taste or Relish in Sauce.
1705–07		N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:6 4: So have I seen a French-man eat, / In Spittle-Fields, most stinking Meat, / Toss’d up with Leeks into Raggoo, / To overcome th’ unsav’ry Hogo.
1713		W. King York Spy 14: I was on a sudden furiously assaulted with the warm Hogo of Apple pies, Custards [...] Sausages and Black-Puddings.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1734		Kick him Nan 6: His eldest Daughter [...] Had yet retain’d her Maiden-head / And, if you will believe my Tale, / It had a Hogo, ’twas so stale.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
1823		Durham Co. Advertiser 6 Sept. 1/4: Then his handkerchief was perfumed! Every time he pulled it out the hogo filled the coach.
1842		Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 28 May n.p.: So thick was the hogo they emitted in court that his Honor was obliged to have the windows raised.
1874		Manchester Courier 6 Apr. 3/2: It used to be an accepted way of ‘chaffing’ a glazier to call him a ’quarrel picker’.
1832		Egan Bk of Sports 155: He [...] soon returns again to enjoy the delicious haut-gout, as the sailors term the flavour of the damaged pork.
1874		Manchester Courier 6 Apr. 3/2: The unsavoury word ‘hogo’ for the smell of tainted meat.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 358: Some women for instance warn you off when they have their period. Come near. Then get a hogo you could hang your hat on. Like what? Potted herrings gone stale or. Boof! Please keep off the grass.
1999		Indep. on Sun. Rev. 24 Oct. 32: One could go to the dentist without instant tension from the vile hogo of pink mouthwash.