hogget

Noun

hogget (countable and uncountable, plural hoggets)

1. (New Zealand, UK, countable) A young sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).
   • They sent a lorryload of hoggets to the auction mart, and they will keep the rest for their own flock.
   • 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 […]1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book IX., page 113

   Synonyms:

   hogg

2. (New Zealand, UK, uncountable) The meat of a young sheep.
   • They make a delicious dinner special of hogget. It is made with rosemary and mint.
   • The butcher told him he didn’t have any lamb. Bummer, Max thought. Then the butcher told him, “We have hogget.” […] With some prodding, the butcher explained that hogget is meat from a sheep that is older than a lamb and younger than the animals that make mutton. It was delicious, this hogget.2010 November 10, Peter Meehan, “Grass Fed | A Few Beefs”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2010
3. (UK, countable, obsolete) A young swine of the second year.
   • The monastery's records showed not only how many swine were raised each year but also their disposition, categorized by boars, sows, hoggets, and porklings.
   • When the particulars of livestock endorsed on the Tavistock account rolls of the fourteenth century are compared with those given in the Exon Domesday,¹ the chief difference between them is found to lie in the elaborate subdivisions of the later documents. Bovine stock, for example, is now...2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 129-130