Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A young boar of the second year.
- n. A sheep or colt more than one year old.
Wiktionary
- n. 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).
- n. chiefly UK, New Zealand The meat of a hogget (sheep).
- n. chiefly UK A young boar of the second year.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A young boar of the second year.
- n. A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
Etymologies
- Middle English (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And try to get your lamb at halal butchers, or better yet, if you are out in the boonies (like Highland County Virginia) you may be able to find grass-fed hogget (a large lamb, not yet mutton) for sale.”
“We'd eventually like to market our own hogget older lamb, but with the current set-up, sending beasts away to an abattoir and transporting them back for butchery is too expensive.”
The Guardian: Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
“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 ...”
The Huffington Post: Grass-Fed Gripes: Problems With Our Eating Cul
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Grass-Fed Gripes: Problems With Our Eating Cul
“There is no doubt that misdescription of hogget and mutton for lamb occurs.”
“Nothing has changed much since then, lamb is still expensive and it looks like in some butcher shops, hogget has caught up.”
“That said, I actually like hogget and have bought mutton for special dishes.”
“Hi thermomixer, I totally agree with you about the taste and flavour of hogget and if I could buy some, would.”
“A friend suggested instead of hogget, perhaps we could say mature lamb instead, it sounds a bit better.”
“Perhaps abbatoirs could use different meat stamps for hogget and mutton, that would be the end of it right there.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hogget’.
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
habanera, habile, habiliment, hackle, hackney, hadal, hame, hank, hansom, hapax, hark, harl and 568 more...
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sheep and goats
sheep and more sheep and some
slang for sheep,films that feature sheep ,have you heard of sheeple?
and goatsammon, ancon, argali, bharal, burrel, burrell, burhel, burrhel, bighorn, billy, blackface, broadtail and 144 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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Ovine affairs
clambake, flamboyant, zalambdodont, bramble, marjoram, lambada, lambrequin, clamber, epigram, lambda calculus, zwartbles, pelibüey and 83 more...
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baby and neutered animal names
joey, cygnet, calf, kid, pup, cub, fledgling, duckling, fry, gosling, nymph, chick and 62 more...
Tweets
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