hoggan

plural hoggans · alternative hoggen

1. CornwalldialectalA pork pasty.

   Tom Trevarton had a piece of hoggan weth un.

   1866, Higham, Dial., 14

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   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

   And these are no ordinary feasts; what with her pasties, saffron cake, "hoggans", "figgy hobbins", marinated pilchards, and, of course, her delicious cream, the Cornish woman has many unusual dishes with which to whet the appetite.

   1948, Norman Wymer, The Southern Shires, page 46

   […] 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. “Hoggans?” Chloe mumbled around a mouthful of herby pasty. “Flatbread with a morsel or two of pork baked into it,” Tamsin explained. "My father said they were hard as rocks. […] Don't worry, dear. I won't serve you hoggans."

   2017, Kathleen Ernst, Mining for Justice, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN

plural Hoggans

1. A surname.