English Explanatory Dictionary

hoggan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pork pasty.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

hoggan hoggans hoggen

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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