hogh

Updated: May 27, 2025

While thus occupied, I was startled by a sudden sound of "hogh!" and the mat which hung over the entrance of the lodge was raised, and an Indian entered with that graceful bound which is peculiar to themselves. It was the master of the lodge, who had been out to shoot ducks, and was just returned.

Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie - Wau-bun: The Early Day in the Northwest

"Is that Latin or Greek, Briney?" "It's Latin, Phaddhy." "And what's the translation of that?" "It signifies the Fables of AEsiopius." "Bliss my sowl! and Briney, did ye consther that out of yer own head?" "Hogh! that's little of it. If ye war to hear me consther Gallus Gallinaceus, a dunghill cock?" "And, Briney, are ye in Greek at all yet?"

William Carleton - The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three