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Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Topic Options #102574 - 05/04/03 04:13 AM Mediaeval hogwashing Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta From Ellis Peters's The Rose Rent page 91 (the sheriff, Hugh Beringar, is speaking): 'He's off back to the hills before night. It seems he has some hoggets up there with a rot of the feet, he and his man came back only to get a supply of the wash to treat them.' Apparently a hogget is a yearling sheep, and hog can mean a young sheep before its first shearing. Bingley _________________________ Bingley Top #102575 - 05/04/03 06:16 AM Re: Mediaeval hogwashing Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... I think there's another term, too, for this 'hogget'...but I can't recall it right now. Top #102576 - 05/04/03 06:25 AM Re: Mediaeval hogwashing Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7186 Loc: Vermont and also the name of the sheep farmer in "Babe". excepting with two T's... Bah-ram-ewe... http://us.imdb.com/Title?0112431 _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top #102577 - 05/04/03 10:04 AM Re: Mediaeval hogwashing maahey addict Registered: 12/03/02 Posts: 555 psstt.....eta, wasn't that the password? I love Babe. Yes. Top #102578 - 05/04/03 11:41 AM Re: Mediaeval hogwashing WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Apparently a hogget is a yearling sheep, and hog can mean a young sheep before its first shearing. I jus' knowed them Kiwis wuz involved in the inception of all this hogwashery somehow! Top #102579 - 05/04/03 11:54 AM Re: Mediaeval hogwashing Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7186 Loc: Vermont psstt.....eta, wasn't that the password? yeah, but notice I didn't give the whole thing... _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top #102580 - 05/04/03 12:01 PM Re: Mediaeval hogwashing maahey addict Registered: 12/03/02 Posts: 555 notice I didn't give the whole thing.. Right you are, eta! very conpiratorial, right back at you! Top #102581 - 05/04/03 04:23 PM Re: Mediaeval hogwashing Capfka Pooh-Bah Registered: 06/28/02 Posts: 1624 Loc: Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Hate to tell you this, Juan, but Babe was pure Australian, through and through. Try Chicken Run, too. A lamb is a lamb until its first birthday (which 60% of lambs in Zild don't get to celebrate - awwwwwwww!), it's a hogget for its second year (and is at its best eating then, but the consumers of the world are impatient beggars), is also called a two-tooth during that period too, is a four-tooth, six-tooth and eight-tooth roughly annually up to about four years old and is then mutton .... Top #102582 - 05/04/03 10:09 PM Re: Mediaeval hogwashing WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Hate to tell you this, Juan, but Babe was pure Australian, through and through. Try Chicken Run, too. Ackshually®, Cap, I was alluding to the sheep. Top #102583 - 05/05/03 06:52 AM Re: Mediaeval hogwashing of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park Jaun, don'tcha just love it when a Kiwi displays an intimate knowledge of young sheep, and then claims you don't know what you're talking about?! love ya, Cap! _________________________ my other obsession Top Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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