hogget

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɒɡɪt/    美 /ˈhɑɡət/|/ˈhɔɡət/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth). New-Zealand,UK,countable
    — 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 […]
  2. The meat of a young sheep. New-Zealand,UK,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. A young boar of the second year. UK,countable

词形变化

hoggets plural

词汇关系

相关词
hogg

词源

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