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hogling

hogling noun: a young, immature, or diminutive hog.

Noun

hogling (plural hoglings)

  1. A young, immature, or diminutive hog.
    • The depositions give no evidence of Easter hoglings, nor of visits outside the parish, though both may have occurred.1986, Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, volume 32, page 810

hogling meaning in Kannada

hogling in Kannada

ಹಂದಿಮರಿ, ಕುರಿಮರಿ

Forms of hogling

pluralhoglings

Origin of hogling

From Middle English *hogling, hoggelin, hoglin, hogelyn, equivalent to hog + -ling.

Questions about hogling

What does hogling mean?
Hogling means a young, immature, or diminutive hog.
What is hogling in Kannada?
Hogling in Kannada is ಹಂದಿಮರಿ, ಕುರಿಮರಿ. See Hogling meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is hogling?
Hogling is a noun.
What is the plural of hogling?
The plural of hogling is hoglings.

Words near hogling in the dictionary

  1. Hogles
  2. hogless
  3. hoglet
  4. hoglets
  5. hoglike
  6. hogling
  7. hoglings
  8. hogloom
  9. hoglooms
  10. Hoglund
  11. Hoglunds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hogling (page history and authors); hogling (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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