hogget

plural hoggets

1. New ZealandUKcountableA 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.

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   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 ZealandUKuncountableThe meat of a young sheep.

   They make a delicious dinner special of hogget. It is made with rosemary and mint.

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   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. UKcountableobsoleteA 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.