A generic name for a farm-labourer or peasant. (Said to be an abbreviated form of Roger, as Hob is of Rob or Robin.)
“Promises held out in order to gain the votes of the agricultural labourers; promises given simply to obtain the vote of ‘Hodge,ʹ who will soon findoutthat his vote was allthat was wanted.”—Newspaper paragraph, Dec., 1885.
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