hogget

/ˈhä-gət ˈhȯ-/ (ame, mw)

hogget — 名詞

1. a sheep between roughly six months and one year of age, after weaning but before

1.名詞C2
釋義

週歲羊

斷奶後尚未首次剪毛的小羊

a sheep between roughly six months and one year of age, after weaning but before its first fleece is cut.

例句

Eitan separated the lambs from the hoggets before driving the flock to the upper pasture.

Eitan 在把羊群趕到上方牧場前，先把小羊羔與週歲羊分開。

countable: separated the lambs from the hoggets

The Welsh farmer kept twenty hoggets in the lower field through the wet autumn months.

那位威爾斯農夫整個潮濕的秋季都把二十隻週歲羊養在下方的田裡。

plural use: kept twenty hoggets

同義詞
  • yearling

    general term for any year-old animal; less specific to sheep

  • shearling

    a sheep that has been shorn once — overlaps with hogget at the cut-off point

反義詞
  • lamb

    a sheep under about six months old

  • mutton

    meat from a fully grown adult sheep, usually over two years

文法句型

a hogget

the hogget

用法筆記

Mostly used by British and Australasian sheep farmers, butchers, and wool buyers. Distinguishes the in-between life stage when the animal is no longer a 'lamb' but not yet old enough to be called a 'sheep' or 'mutton'.

常見錯誤

❌I saw a baby hogget in the field.
✅I saw a lamb in the field.
💡a hogget is not a baby; very young sheep are called lambs.