Wednesday's Random Slang-o-rama: Hogan-mogan

I bumped into this phrase and then had to chase it down... Is "hogan-mogan" as mysterious to you as it was to me? According to Green's Dictionary of Slang compiled by Jonathan Green, it dates back to the 17th century.
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Green's actually has MANY definitions for this term...
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Are you dying of curiosity?
Relax. Here's what Green's says.

Hogan-mogan (also hogan, hogen-mogen)

As a noun:

1. (ca. 1640–1750) an important person or one who presumes himself to be one.
2. a Dutchman. 1656.

As an adjective:

1. pretentious, high and mighty  1654. Momus Elenticus* "Up last the Steeple his Deanship did climbe, In a Hogen Mogen pittifull Rythme, Like the Chimes of Carfax without tune or time."
2. of drink, strong. 1663. Dryden, Wild Gallant "I was drunk; damnably drunk with ale; great hogan-mogan bloody ale."
3. Dutch. 1654. 

Also, a "hogan-mogan rug" is a strong drink.

In a neat bit of serendipity, one of the characters in the Silver Rush series, Wolter Roeland de Bruijn, is Dutch.

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* I also looked up Momus Elenticus. Turns out this poem also includes one of the first usages of the phrase "to save one's bacon." You can read about it here.
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So, is that a little hogan-mogan in that bottle??
Historic reenactor Dave Johnston (as the town bartender and possibly its drunk) at South Park City Museum, a collection of historic buildings in Fairplay, Colorad, photo by Carol M. Highsmith. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.