Meanings
nounhogoo (plural hogoos)
plural hogoos
- alternativeAlternative form of hogo (“strong unpleasant smell”).
Lastly, you may either put it into the pike, with the oysters, two cloves of garlic, and take it whole out when the pike is cut off the spit; or, to give the sauce a hogoo [haut goût], let the dish into which you let the pike fall be rubbed with it; […]
1877, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Kettner's Book of the Table, page 350
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