hogling

noun

hogling

noun

Etymology From Middle English *hogling, hoggelin, hoglin, hogelyn, equivalent to hog + -ling.

1

A young, immature, or diminutive hog.

  • The depositions give no evidence of Easter hoglings, nor of visits outside the parish, though both may have occurred.1986, Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, volume 32, page 810:

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