oggy
English
editEtymology
editFrom hoggan.
Noun
editoggy (plural oggies)
- (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 […]