hogget

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English hogget, from Anglo-Norman hoget and an Anglo-Latin hogettus.

Two or three of the weaklier hoggets were dead, from want of air, and from pressure; but more than three-score were as lively as ever; though cramped and stiff for a little while. — Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones80 all kept apart from one another; as for his dairy, all the vessels, bowls, and milk pails into which he milked, were swimming with whey. — The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original, Homer
And he had experience of the like brood beasts and of springers, greasy hoggets and wether wool, having been some years before actuary for Mr Joseph Cuffe, a worthy salesmaster that drove his trade for live stock and meadow auctions hard by Mr Gavin Low’s yard in Prussia street. — Ulysses, James Joyce

hog, hogg

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