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hoggan

hoggan noun: a pork pasty.

Noun

hoggan (plural hoggans)

  1. (Cornwall, dialectal) A pork pasty.
    • Some of the mine-owners provide no facilities whatever for the children to rewarm their pasties and hoggans […]1852, Chambers's Repository of Instructing and Amusing Tracts
    • Tom Trevarton had a piece of hoggan weth un.1866, Higham, Dial., 14

Proper noun capitalized: Hoggan

Hoggan (plural Hoggans)

  1. A surname.

Examples of hoggan in a sentence

  • […] those who had to eat cold hoggans or pasties.2004, Lynne Mayers, Balmaidens:
  • “Of course, the truly poor people had to make do with hoggans,” Tamsin was saying.2017, Kathleen Ernst, Mining for Justice, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

Forms of hoggan

Noun
pluralhoggans
alternative formhoggen
Proper noun
pluralHoggans

Origin of hoggan

Use of the term in Cornwall is attributed to Old Cornish hoggan, hogen (“pork pasty; pie”), from hoch (“pig”), from Proto-Brythonic *hux, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-, related to Welsh hwch (“sow”). However, the term was also common in Essex, so perhaps compare Old English hogg.

Questions about hoggan

What does hoggan mean?
Hoggan means a pork pasty.
How do you use hoggan in a sentence?
[…] those who had to eat cold hoggans or pasties.
What part of speech is hoggan?
Hoggan can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of hoggan?
The plural of hoggan is hoggans.

Words near hoggan in the dictionary

  1. hogfish
  2. hogfishes
  3. hogframe
  4. hogframes
  5. hogg
  6. hoggan
  7. hoggan-bag
  8. hoggan-bags
  9. hoggans
  10. hoggard
  11. Hoggards

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