ETYMOLOGY
from hog + grubber (a person who gets wealth by sordid or contemptible methods)
EXAMPLE
“…The next that in our little Ease,
Came to be bit with Lice and Fleas,
Was a spruce Knave, like none of these, But sober,
As the Strand May-pole, – he did go,
In russe, – His thumb th’row ring, did show
A Gentleman seal’d, – for he was no Hog-grubber:
It was a Petty-fogging Varlet,
Whose back worse freez, but burn no scarlet,
And was tane napping with his Harlot, At noddy: …”
From: The Counter-Scuffle
Whereunto is added, the Counter-Ratt
By Robert Speed, 1626
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