Hoggan-bag
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A miner's bag used to carry provisions. Cornwall, obsolete
"[page 39:] Baccy, with cowals for the chowters, Saalt pilchers, and some ' taties, Eggs, clidgy, traade, and hoganbags, Gowks, sparables, and lattice. [page 45:] When, who but your man com a tott'ring along, / So drunk that I thoft fath, he'd fall in the doong. A let tumble hes hoggan bag jist by the dour, So I cal'd to the man, as one woud to be shoar. Says I, "Martin, dost hire, cheel, tak up tha bag.""
Example
More examples"[page 39:] Baccy, with cowals for the chowters, Saalt pilchers, and some ' taties, Eggs, clidgy, traade, and hoganbags, Gowks, sparables, and lattice. [page 45:] When, who but your man com a tott'ring along, / So drunk that I thoft fath, he'd fall in the doong. A let tumble hes hoggan bag jist by the dour, So I cal'd to the man, as one woud to be shoar. Says I, "Martin, dost hire, cheel, tak up tha bag.""
Etymology
From hoggan (“pork pasty”), which see for more.
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