A village in Oxfordshire, now called Hook Norton. I think you were born at Hogs-Norton. A reproof to an ill-mannered person.
“I think thou wast born at Hoggs-Norton, where piggs play upon the organs.”—Howell: English Proverbs, p. 16.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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