Corruption of haut goust, high taste, or flavour; commonly said of flesh somewhat tainted. It has a confounded hogo; it stinks confoundedly.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Hoggish * HoistNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes