hogget
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- Letters
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/ˈhɒɡɪt/
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/ˈhɒɡɪt/ · /ˈhɑɡət/ (US) · /ˈhɔɡət/ (US)
Definition of hogget
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(New-Zealand, UK, countable)A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).
“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 […]”
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noun
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(New-Zealand, UK, countable)A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).
“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 […]”
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(New-Zealand, UK, uncountable)The meat of a young sheep.
“The butcher told him he didn’t have any lamb. Bummer, Max thought. Then the butcher told him, “We have hogget.” […] With some prodding, the butcher explained that hogget is meat from a sheep that is older than a lamb and younger than the animals that make mutton. It was delicious, this hogget.”
- (UK, countable)A young boar of the second year.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English hogget, from Anglo-Norman hoget and an Anglo-Latin hogettus.
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