Oggy vs Hoggy - What's the difference?
oggy | hoggy |
(UK, dialect, Cornwall) A Cornish pasty.
* 2004 , Keith Heller, The Woman Who Knew Gandhi (page 81)
* 2012 , Max Cryer, Curious English Words and Phrases (page 257)
(of character) hoggish
(of land) boggy, marshy, squelchy.
As a noun oggy
is a Cornish pasty.As an adjective hoggy is
hoggish.oggy
English
Noun
(oggies)- 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.
- Miners ate oggies down the Cornish mines, and one of Henry VIII's wives wrote a letter mentioning Cornish pasties