hogget

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English

Etymology

From Middle English hogget, from Anglo-Norman hoget and an Anglo-Latin hogettus.

Pronunciation

Noun

hogget (plural hoggets)

  1. (chiefly UK, New Zealand) A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).
    • 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book IX., page 113
      They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones all kept apart from one another
  2. (chiefly UK, New Zealand) The meat of a young sheep.
  3. (chiefly UK) A young boar of the second year.

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  • hogget”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hogget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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