hoggan-bag
hoggan-bag noun: a miner's bag used to carry provisions.
Noun
hoggan-bag (plural hoggan-bags)
- A miner's bag used to carry provisions.
- [page 39:] Baccy, with cowals for the chowters, Saalt pilchers, and some ' taties, Eggs, clidgy, traade, and hoganbags, Gowks, sparables, and lattice.
[page 45:] When, who but your man com a tott'ring along, / So drunk that I thoft fath, he'd fall in the doong. A let tumble hes hoggan bag jist by...1846, William Sandys, Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect - To his work he carries from the surface his keg of water, his “hoggan-bag,” and a tin, carelessly slung over his shoulder, which is full of charges[…]1901, The Windsor Magazine, page 325
- [page 39:] Baccy, with cowals for the chowters, Saalt pilchers, and some ' taties, Eggs, clidgy, traade, and hoganbags, Gowks, sparables, and lattice.
Forms of hoggan-bag
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Origin of hoggan-bag
From hoggan (“pork pasty”), which see for more.
Questions about hoggan-bag
- What does hoggan-bag mean?
- Hoggan-bag means a miner's bag used to carry provisions.
- What part of speech is hoggan-bag?
- Hoggan-bag is a noun.
- What is the plural of hoggan-bag?
- The plural of hoggan-bag is hoggan-bags.
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