Hoggan

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A pork pasty. Cornwall, dialectal

    "Some of the mine-owners provide no facilities whatever for the children to rewarm their pasties and hoggans […]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

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"Some of the mine-owners provide no facilities whatever for the children to rewarm their pasties and hoggans […]"

Etymology

Use of the term in Cornwall is attributed to Old Cornish hoggan, hogen (“pork pasty; pie”), from hoch (“pig”), from Proto-Brythonic *hux, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-, related to Welsh hwch (“sow”). However, the term was also common in Essex, so perhaps compare Old English hogg.

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