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noun
A young sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, UK, countable
Synonyms: hogg
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sheep, ovine, caprine, caprid, goat antelope, goat-antelope, bovid, ungulate, mammal, vertebrate, animal
noun
The meat of a young sheep.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, UK, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sheepflesh, sheepmeat, flesh, meat, food
noun
A young swine of the second year.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, obsolete
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: swine, porcine, suidian, suilline, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
noun
a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hog, hogg
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lamb
History
From Middle English hogget, from Anglo-Norman hoget and an Anglo-Latin hogettus.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
