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Oggy vs Hoggy - What's the difference?

oggy | hoggy |

As a noun oggy

is a Cornish pasty.

As an adjective hoggy is

hoggish.

oggy

English

Noun

(oggies)
  • (UK, dialect, Cornwall) A Cornish pasty.
  • * 2004 , Keith Heller, The Woman Who Knew Gandhi (page 81)
  • I was given them by a delightful Cornish lady who was quite taken with me and used to make the most delicious tiddy oggy pasties.
  • * 2012 , Max Cryer, Curious English Words and Phrases (page 257)
  • Miners ate oggies down the Cornish mines, and one of Henry VIII's wives wrote a letter mentioning Cornish pasties

    hoggy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of character) hoggish
  • (of land) boggy, marshy, squelchy.
  • Derived terms

    * hogginess