hogget

See also: Hogget

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒɡɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɡət/, /ˈhɔɡət/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hogget (countable and uncountable, plural hoggets)

1. (countable, 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. (uncountable, chiefly UK, New Zealand) The meat of a young sheep.

   Hypernyms: sheepflesh, sheepmeat

   Coordinate terms: lamb, mutton

   • 2010 November 10, Peter Meehan, “Grass Fed | A Few Beefs”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 November 2010:

     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.

3. (countable, chiefly UK) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A young boar of the second year.

Translations

a young sheep from about 9 to 18 months of age

• German: Jungschaf (de) n
• Italian: agnellone (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kavir (ku) m or f

• Māori: hōkete
• Sardinian: saccaju m (Campidanese, Logudorese, Nuorese), saccàiu m (Gallurese, Sassarese)
• Serbo-Croatian: šiljeg (sh) m

See also

• hogg

Further reading

• “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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• egg-hot, egghot