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English
Etymology
From Middle English hogget, from Anglo-Norman hoget and an Anglo-Latin hogettus.
Pronunciation
Noun
hogget (plural hoggets)
- (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
- (chiefly UK, New Zealand) The meat of a young sheep.
- (chiefly UK) A young boar of the second year.
Translations
a young sheep from about 9 to 18 months of age
See also
Further reading
- “hogget”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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