1736 Canting Dictionary / H / HOG-Grubber [rogue]
a close-fisted, narrow soul'd sneaking Fellow.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Hog Grubber in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).