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hoggan-bag en · NOUN

Etymology

From hoggan (“pork pasty”), which see for more.

Meanings

1. (Cornwall, obsolete) A miner's bag used to carry provisions.
   • [page 39:] Baccy, with cowals for the chowters, Saalt pilchers, and some ' taties, Eggs, clidgy, traade, and hoganbags, Gowks, sparables, and lattice. [page 45:] When, who but your man com a tott'ring along, / So drunk that I thoft fath, he'd fall in the doong. A let tumble hes hoggan bag jist by the dour, So I cal'd to the man, as one woud to be shoar. Says I, "Martin, dost hire, cheel, tak up tha bag." 1846, William Sandys, Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect:
   • To his work he carries from the surface his keg of water, his “hoggan-bag,” and a tin, carelessly slung over his shoulder, which is full of charges[…] 1901, The Windsor Magazine, page 325:

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