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‖ haut-goût|ogu|
Forms: 7 haugou, hau-gou, hau-, hautgoust, haut-goust, haut goust, hault-gust, haut-gust, haugout, (hought-goust), 7–8 hautgout, 8 haugust, 7– haut-gout, 9 hautgoût. See also hogo.
[F.; lit. ‘high flavour’, ‘anything that excites the appetite, and is put into sauces, such as pepper, lemon, musk, verjuice, etc.’ (Littré), as in sense 1; f. haut high + goût (formerly goust) taste, savour, flavour. (The 17–18th c. spellings, show that the pronunciation was sometimes anglicized (ˈhɔːtgʌst, ˈhɔːgʌst); but hogo bears witness to the French form.)]
†1. A high or piquant flavour; a strong relish; something that gives a relish, seasoning. Obs.
c1645Howell Lett. I. v. xxxviii, He can marinat fish, make gellies, he is excellent for a pickant sawce, and the Haugou. a1661Fuller Worthies, Cornwall i. (1662) 194 [Garlick] giving a delicious Hault-gust to most meats they eat. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess., Country Mouse 18 For a Hautgoust there was mixt with these The swerd of Bacon, and the coat of Cheese. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 166 Our English-Tobacco..many are of Opinion that it's better than Forreign, having a more Haut⁓gust, which pleaseth some. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 97 Which will..greatly improve the Drink, by giving it a fine Haugust, or a true Tincture of the Malt. 1752Milton's P.R. i. 344 note (Jod.) A little book writ by a gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's court, where ambergris is mentioned as the hautgout of that age.
b. fig. ‘Flavour’, ‘spice’. [So in French.]
1650Charleton Paradoxes 88 Their conjecture hath ever had a strong hautgoust of absurdity. 1667Decay Chr. Piety viii. ⁋40 Every impertinent story or insipid jest must have the haut-goust of an oath to recommend it. 1683Kennett Erasm. on Folly 12 What stage of life is not melancholy..unless we spice it with Pleasure, that haut goust of Folly? 1711Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Mrs. Hewet (1887) I. 31 Danger gives a haut goût to everything.
2. In later use: A ‘high’ or slightly putrescent flavour; a taint.
1693Congreve Juvenal, Sat. xi. 244 (Jod.) Nor is there ever left Any unsav'ry hautgout from the holt. 1796Pegge Anonym. 185 People affect to eat venison with a haut-gout in the country. 1820T. S. Hughes Trav. in Sicily II. i. 26 (Stanf.) Oil..is relished the better for a slight taint or haut⁓gout. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 281 (Stanf.) This gives a haut goût, as putrefaction does to the aldermanic haunch.
†3. A highly-flavoured or seasoned dish. Obs.
1656–7Davenant Rutland House Dram. Wks. 1873 III. 226 She having not known..the sufficient mystery of haut⁓gouts. 1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 598 Or season her, as French Cooks use Their Haut-gusts, Buollies, or Ragusts. 1693Humours of Town 10 Rather..than come within forty miles of the smell of the Hought-goust. 1702Motteux Prol. to Farquhar's Inconstant, Your rakes love hauts-goûts, like your damn'd French cheese. 1817Coleridge Sibyl. Leaves Poems II. 312 Each haut-gout cook'd by monk or priest.
4. attrib.
1651Stanley Excitations Poems 93 This hau-gou Carbonade. |