hogg

See hogget (“young sheep”)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɒɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑɡ/, /hɔːɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ
• Homophone: hog

hogg (plural hoggs)

1. A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget.

• hogde (of simple past)

hogg

1. simple past of hogge
2. imperative of hogge

hogg

1. inflection of hogga:
   1. past
   2. imperative

• hocg

Uncertain. Possibly derived from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”).

Alternatively, perhaps from Celtic, compare Welsh hwch (“sow”), Cornish hoch (“pig”) (whence probably modern English hoggan (“pork pasty”));^[1] however, the possibility of British Celtic origin [Watkins, etc.] is regarded by OED as "improbable.".^[2]

• IPA^(key): /xoɡɡ/, [hoɡ]

hogg m (nominative plural hoggas)

1. hog, especially a castrated male (family Suidae)

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: hogge, hog
  • English: hog
  • Scots: hogg, hog