hogget

hogget

See also: Hogget

English

Etymology

Middle English

Noun

hogget (plural hoggets)

1. (chiefly Britain, 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. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand) The meat of a young sheep.
3. (chiefly Britain) A young boar of the second year.

Translations

a young sheep from about 9 to 18 months of age

Maori: hōkete

Further reading

• hogget at 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• egghot