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Date "HODGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Literature | Hodge A generic name for a farm-labourer or peasant. (Said to be an abbreviated form of Roger, as Hob is of Rob or Robin.) "Promises held out in order to gain the votes of the agricultural labourers; promises given simply to obtain the vote of `Hodge,' who will soon find out that his vote was all that was wanted." - Newspaper paragraph, Dec., 1885. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | HODGE. An abbreviation of Roger: a general name for a country booby. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hodge, Louisiana."
Crosswords: HODGE |
| Specialty definitions using "HODGE": HODGE PODGE. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hodge Podge Lodge (1970) | |
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 | Figure 12. Hydra sounder, made by Mr. Gibbs and colleagues on the HMS HYDRA during the 1868 Indian Ocean expedition commanded by Captain Peter F. Shortland. Some of the first deep soundings in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans were made with this instrument rigged for use with a Hodge accumulator. Among the important soundings was one of over 3400 meters at 31.05 S Lat and 12.25E Long. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | ... Doth envy Hodge his great one; / [John Collier] T. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Hugh. L. Hodge engraved by Welch & Walter from a daguereotype by M.P. Simons. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Photographed in port, circa late 1918. This wooden freighter was built in 1918 by the Hodge Shipbuilding Company, at Moss Point, Mississippi. She served briefly in the Naval Overseas Transportation Service during that year. Note her pattern camouflage. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Ship's football team, 1912. Note inscription on football in lower center, identifying the team as that year's champions of the Third Division (Atlantic Fleet). Photographed by E.A. Hodge, Boston, Massachusetts. Credit: NAVY. |  | U.S. delegates Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid and Lieutenant General John R. Hodge sign surrender documents, during ceremonies in the Government Building at Keijo (Seoul), Korea, 9 September 1945. U.S. representatives present include (seated along table, left to right): Rear Admiral Francis S. Low; Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey; Admiral Kinkaid; Lieutenant General Hodge; Major General A.V. Arnold; Major General G.X. Cheeves and Brigadier General Joseph T. Ready. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Hodge Open Air School. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Contrabands building a levee on the Mississippi river, below Baton Rouge, under the direction of Capt. Hodge, Gen. Augur's staff - Baton Rouge in the distance / sketched March 13, by our special artist, F.H. Schell. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Hodge in her new prefabricated house at Pacolet, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Peter F. Dailey in the big musical comedy, Hodge, Podge & Co. adapted from the German by Geo. V. Hobart ; lyrics by Walter H. Ford ; music by John W. Bratton. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "HODGE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.58% of the time. "HODGE" is used about 203 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 94.58% | 192 | 22,147 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.96% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.97% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 203 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "HODGE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hodge | Last name | 22,000 | 518 |
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1. Hodge, LA (village, FIPS 35100) |
Expressions using "HODGE": East Hodge ♦ North Hodge. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "HODGE": hodge-podge, hodge-podges. | |
Ending with "HODGE": Hermon-hodge, Vere-hodge. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "HODGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Земеделски аботник, Селяк (Hick, Kern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter), pel mel (hodge-podge), mišmaš (hodge-podge, hotchpotch, pell mell), míchanice (concoction, hodgepodge, hodge-podge, jumble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Hodge-pessar (Hodge pessary), Bosworth-Vere Hodge's operation (Bosworth-Vere Hodge operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pessarium van Hodge (Hodge pessary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pessaire de Hodge (Hodge pessary), opération de Bosworth-Hodge (Bosworth-Vere Hodge operation), opération de Bosworth et Vere Hodge (Bosworth-Vere Hodge operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hodge Pessar (Hodge pessary), Bosworth-Vere Hodge Operation (Bosworth-Vere Hodge operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πεσσός του Hodge (Hodge pessary), εγχείρηση BOSWORTH-VERE-HODGE (Bosworth-Vere Hodge operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | capcai (hodge-podge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pessario di HODGE (Hodge pessary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | odgehay trapalhada (foul-up, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, huddle, imbroglio, jumble, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, moil, muddle, mull, muss, puddle), pessário de Hodge (Hodge pessary), operação de Bosworth-Hodge (Bosworth-Vere Hodge operation), mixrdia (hodge-podge), mistura (admixture, blend, commixture, concoction, cross, fusion, gallimaufry, half-and-half, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, immixture, interfusion, intermixture, jumble, mash, medley, miscellany, mix, mixture, olio, patchwork, salmagundi, shuffle), confuso (hash, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hubbub, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry, hurry-scurry, imbroglio). (various references) talmeş-balmeş (confusion, farrago, fustian, glory-hole, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hurry-scurry, jumble, mix up, muddle, olio, topsy turvy, upside down, welter), ghiveci (hodge-podge, hotchpotch, mash, patchwork, salad), adunãturã (amalgam, congeries, crowd, gathering, group, hash, heap, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, mishmash, mob, swarm, troop). (various references) Батрак. (various references) seljak (bucolic, bumpkin, farmer, hick, peasant, villager, villein). (various references) pesario de Hodge (Hodge pessary), operación de Bosworth-Vere Hodge (Bosworth-Vere Hodge operation). (various references) Köylünün Simgesi. (various references) người nông dân Anh điển hình. (various references) cymysgfa (hodge-podge, medley, mixture), cybolfa (hodge-podge, medley), cawl (broth, hodge-podge, soup), cawdel (hodge-podge, mess). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HODGE": hodgepodge, hodgepodges. (additional references) | |
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"HODGE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hode, hodgie, Hodgy, Hodie, Hogge, Holga, Hoodie, Horge, Howdee, Khodja, Odge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-o" | |
-1 letter: doge, hoed, ohed. | |
-2 letters: doe, dog, edh, ego, ged, god, hod, hoe, hog, ode. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, eh, go, he, ho, od, oe, oh. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-o" | |
+1 letter: hogged. | |
+2 letters: boughed, coughed, ghosted, godhead, hagrode, hogtied, hogweed, homaged, oughted, roughed, shogged, soughed, thonged, toughed. | |
+3 letters: dogeship, doghouse, dogteeth, doughier, galoshed, gheraoed, ghettoed, goatherd, godheads, grouched, gumshoed, headlong, hedgehog, hedgehop, hedgerow, hogshead, hogweeds, hydrogel, hydrogen, longhead, ploughed, sheepdog, sloughed, thronged. | |
+4 letters: beholding, coheading, dehorning, dehorting, dogeships, dogfishes, doghouses, doughface, doughiest, doughlike, doughtier, eightfold, gasholder, gazehound, goatherds, godfather, godmother, greyhound, gunkholed, hedgehogs, hedgehops, hedgerows, hogsheads, hoidening, hotdogged, hotdogger, hoydening, hydrogels, hydrogens, ideograph, longheads, roughened, sheepdogs, toughened. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 44 47 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- -.. --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01000100 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O D G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 0044 0047 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4249384139 |
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