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hoggan.

A pork pasty.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A pork pasty.

    Cornwall · dialectal
Where this word comes from

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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