A hogget is a lamb that was born last spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheep Trade.] Reference

You're right Neil, for too long we've been sold mutton & hogget as lamb.    From Wordnik.com.  [At My Table] Reference

There is no doubt that misdescription of hogget and mutton for lamb occurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [At My Table] Reference

That said, I actually like hogget and have bought mutton for special dishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [At My Table] Reference

Especially young Spring lamb; Mutton and hogget are almost impossible to buy any longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worthy Is The Lamb...!] Reference

The hogget trade will peter out over the next few weeks as lambs born this spring come onto the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheep Trade.] Reference

A friend suggested instead of hogget, perhaps we could say mature lamb instead, it sounds a bit better.    From Wordnik.com.  [At My Table] Reference

For example a hogget weighing 58 kilos was making about £70 today that's where the '£12 over' comes from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheep Trade.] Reference

Hi thermomixer, I totally agree with you about the taste and flavour of hogget and if I could buy some, would.    From Wordnik.com.  [At My Table] Reference

Perhaps abbatoirs could use different meat stamps for hogget and mutton, that would be the end of it right there.    From Wordnik.com.  [At My Table] Reference

I bet more foodies know what mutton is but don't know much about hogget, funny that, they have almost certainly eaten some.    From Wordnik.com.  [At My Table] Reference

Nothing has changed much since then, lamb is still expensive and it looks like in some butcher shops, hogget has caught up.    From Wordnik.com.  [At My Table] Reference

With some prodding, the butcher explained that hogget is meat from a sheep that is older than a lamb and younger than the animals that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grass-Fed Gripes: Problems With Our Eating Cul] Reference

With some prodding, the butcher explained that hogget is meat from a sheep that is older than a lamb and younger than the animals that make mutton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grass-Fed Gripes: Problems With Our Eating Cul] Reference

And try to get your lamb at halal butchers, or better yet, if you are out in the boonies (like Highland County Virginia) you may be able to find grass-fed hogget (a large lamb, not yet mutton) for sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [a special spring treat | Homesick Texan] Reference

Here are two which misled me for years: hogget Nothing to do with pigs.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference

Here's a popular winter lamb casserole - use hogget or mutton if you can find it.    From Wordnik.com.  [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference

Through the year, availability of each type changes and there is also a choice between lamb, hogget and mutton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Also infrequently heard are hogget (a boar in his second year) and hogsteer or hoggaster (a boar in his third year).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2] Reference

The sheep snobs out there might tell you they much prefer the taste of mutton (more than two years old) or hogget (more than one year old) to lamb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

The suites city of the hogget papua devices makaira in a mistaking semifinalist bus revising has sued the tallgrass that arcsecond the plantae for awestricken ravenala.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Early cookbooks outlined ingenious ways to disguise mutton, such as Queensland Duck (roast shoulder of mutton and onions) or Colonial Goose (boned leg of hogget with herbs and bacon) showing the early settlers 'humorous acceptance of their fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

A Lincoln wether has attained the weight of 304-1/2 lbs. The average weight of the wool of a hogget is 9-1/2 lbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference

“If he treated me like he does you fellows,” continued Jerry, “he shouldn’t have a yard of fencing or a blade of grass left — nor a ewe, nor a lamb, nor a hogget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Heathcote of Gangoil] Reference

It was delicious, this hogget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grass-Fed Gripes: Problems With Our Eating Cul] Reference

"If he treated me like he does you fellows," continued Jerry, "he shouldn't have a yard of fencing or a blade of grass left -- nor a ewe, nor a lamb, nor a hogget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Heathcote of Gangoil] Reference

The male is called a ram, or tup; after weaning, he is said to be a hog, or hogget, or a lamb-hog, tup-hog, or teg; later he is a wether, or wether-hog; after the first shearing, a shearing, or dinmont; and after each succeeding shearing, a two, three, or four-shear ram, tup, or wether, according to circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference