α. Middle English–1500s 1800s hoggett, late Middle English 1700s– hogget, 1500s hogatte, 1500s hoggyte, 1700s–1800s hoggit.
β. 1700s hoggard, 1700s hoggart.
单词 | hogget |
释义 | hoggetn.α. Middle English–1500s 1800s hoggett, late Middle English 1700s– hogget, 1500s hogatte, 1500s hoggyte, 1700s–1800s hoggit. β. 1700s hoggard, 1700s hoggart. 1. A boar in its second year; = hog n.1 3a. Now rare and English regional (East Anglian). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > boar (uncastrated) > of specific age hogget1360 gorgeauntc1420 hoggasterc1425 hoggerel1788 1360 in J. Raine Inventories & Acct. Rolls Benedictine Houses Jarrow & Monk-Wearmouth (1854) 155 (MED) In uno apro, iij suibus et j hoggett emptis..xxv s. iiij d. 1788 Chambers's Cycl. II. (at cited word) Hogget, or Hogrel, a young boar of the second year. 1882 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices IV. xi. 341 Store pigs, the porculi, sometimes porci, occasionally hoggets, of the accounts, are bought throughout the fifteenth century uniformly. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 62 Hog, a year-old sheep. This and its derivative hogget are used for both swine and sheep. 2. a. A sheep in its second year; a yearling sheep; (also) a sheep from weaning until its first shearing (now chiefly New Zealand). Cf. hog n.1 4, teg n.1 1. Also with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by age > one year old or sheared once shearling1378 hoggaster1388 hogget1421 shear-sheep1503 shear-hog?1523 hoggerel1530 shear wether hog1537 teg1537 hog sheep1552 lamb-hog1607 shearinga1642 two-teeth1776 hogling1856 1421 in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 1 (1883) App. 229 in Parl. Papers (C. 3773) XXXVII. 1 iij oues hogges..[Anglice] hoggets. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Bidentes, shepe with ii. teth, called in some place hogrelles, or hogattes. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hogget or Hogrel, a Country-Word for such a Sheep [sc. a Hoggaster]. 1732 R. Bradley Gentleman & Farmer's Guide for Improvem. of Cattle (ed. 2) 32 I have explained..that at a Year old they are called Hogs, Hoggets or Hogards. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 246 They sell either lambs, hoggits, or two or three year olds; the price of a two-year old ewe 10s. 1808 W. Pitt Gen. View Agric. Stafford (ed. 2) viii. 114 Their produce of wool as follows: yearling hoggets not having been shorn as lambs, 4lb. average fleece. 1834 D. Low Elements Pract. Agric. (1843) 793 In ten days..after shearing, the wether-hoggets, now dinmonts, and such of the ewe-hoggets, now gimmers, as are not to be retained on the farm for breeding, may be sold. 1884 F. J. Lloyd Sci. Agric. xviii. 326 Careful management should enable the hoggets to be sold when ten months old, weighing from 80 to 90 lbs. 1886 Daily News (Norwich) 14 June 2/8 Hoggetts in their wool brought 45s. to 55s. 1937 W. Ayson Pioneering in Otago 41 The wethers were out on the Waiwera hills, and the hoggets ran near the homestead. 1971 Farmer's Weekly 19 Mar. 67/3 You can't grade hoggets on the hoof. 2001 H. Potterton Rathcormick (2004) xi. 116 He might be excused for not recognising a hogget when he looked at the sheep out in Tubber. b. Originally Australian and New Zealand. The flesh of a hogget used as food. ΚΠ 1951 Jrnl. Agric., S. Austral. 55 226 (caption) Cuts of mutton, lamb, hogget, pork, and beef. 1979 W. Simons Harper's Mother 155 Kitty fusses, taking a leg of hogget out of the freezer for tonight's dinner. 1997 Times (Nexis) 5 Apr. We eat hogget in considerable style. 2004 H. Fearnley-Whittingstall River Cottage Meat Bk. v. 95 For those of us who produce hogget and mutton, there is another source of satisfaction beyond the question of taste. 3. English regional (chiefly southern). A yearling colt; = hog colt n. at hog n.1 Compounds 2c. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > male > colt > of specific age hog colt1591 three-years1617 hogget1787 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Hoggets, hog-colts, colts of a year old. Hants. 1873 W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somersetshire Hogget, a sheep or horse one-year-old. Compounds General attributive (in sense 2), as hogget fleece, hogget ram, hogget sheep, hogget wool, etc. ΚΠ 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 259 If a man has only rich land in those baronies, without any in Tipperary, then he keeps only bullocks regularly; but he buys in some hoggit sheep, which he keeps a year, and sells fat. 1808 H. Dutton Statist. Surv. County Clare v. 262 A hogget ram of each breed was weighed by Mr. Blood. 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 358/1 The hogget wool is..finer than the other long wools, and is applicable to many new and valuable purposes. 1842 J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. (1862) II. 154 When the lamb has not been shorn, the fleece taken off the succeeding summer is called hogget, or teg wool. 1878 J. A. Clarke in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 14 ii. 560 Sometimes the weight of a hogget fleece exceeds 14 lbs.; but a good average clip, of which half is ewe wool, is about 9 lbs. per fleece. 1922 W. Perry Sheep Farming in N.Z. 121 The hogget, wether, and wet ewe fleeces are best made into separate lines, provided..at least three bales of each can be made. 1979 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Res. 22 261 Correlations between the same trait measured at the hogget age and over the lifetime of ewe are referred to as ‘direct’ correlations. 2008 Irish Independent (Nexis) 22 July As July draws to a close, it is time to start thinking about next year's lamb crop again. As I write this article, the first hogget ram sales have already taken place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1360 |
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