Re[2]: [tied] Re: Cimmerians and Amazons

At 3:08:09 PM on Friday, February 14, 2003, P&G wrote:

> On this topic, what might be the origin of the word
> "hogget" for the meat from a "two-tooth" (a one-year old
> sheep)? I've not met the term in the UK, but it's common
> in NZ. Unsurprisingly, it's not in my etymological
> dictionaries!

The OED makes it a diminutive in <-et> of <hog(g)> 'a swine
reared for slaughter; a name given to a sheep of a certain
age' (and other senses), found in a Latin context in 1350
and in English ca.1460. So far as I know, the etymology of
<hog> is unknown.

Brian M. Scott