oggy

English

Etymology

From hoggan.

Noun

oggy (plural oggies)

  1. (UK, dialect, Cornwall, Devon) A Cornish pasty.
    Synonym: tiddy oggy
    • 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 […]

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