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hoggan-bags

hoggan-bags is the plural of hoggan-bag.

Meaning of hoggan-bag

Noun

hoggan-bag (plural hoggan-bags)

  1. (Cornwall, obsolete) 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

Questions about hoggan-bags

What is hoggan-bags the plural of?
Hoggan-bags is the plural of hoggan-bag.

Words near hoggan-bags in the dictionary

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

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