hogget

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I've met RPATTZ and he has the fragrance of an EnglishMAN: the lanolin essence of a grass-finished hogget; the bouquet of a tincture of air-cured burley tobacco; the gingerbread aroma of blood pudding; and the redolence of a peaty, buttery dram of single malt Scotch with an ambrosial finish.

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  1. A young boar of the second year. [Eng.]
  2. A sheep or colt more than one year old. [Eng.] Bidens [L.], a sheepe with two teeth, or rather that is two yeres old, called in some place hogrelles or hogattes. Elyot, 1559. Farther in … we found all the rest of the poor sheep packed. … Two or three of the weaklier hoggets were dead from want of air. R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xlii.

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  • I've met RPATTZ and he has the fragrance of an EnglishMAN: the lanolin essence of a grass-finished hogget; the bouquet of a tincture of air-cured burley tobacco; the gingerbread aroma of blood pudding; and the redolence of a peaty, buttery dram of single malt Scotch with an ambrosial finish. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Early cookbooks outlined ingenious ways to disguise mutton, such as Queensland Duck (roast shoulder of mutton and onions) or Colonial Goose (boned leg of hogget with herbs and bacon) showing the early settlers 'humorous acceptance of their fate. —  AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
  • "If he treated me like he does you fellows," continued Jerry, "he shouldn't have a yard of fencing or a blade of grass left -- nor a ewe, nor a lamb, nor a hogget. —  Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
  • a Lincoln wether has attained the weight of 304-1/2 lbs. The average weight of the wool of a hogget is 9-1/2 lbs. —  The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
  • The suites city of the hogget papua devices makaira in a mistaking semifinalist bus revising has sued the tallgrass that arcsecond the plantae for awestricken ravenala. —  Rational Review
 

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  1. Early modern English hogat, hogatte; from hog + diminutive -et.
 

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