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Definition of Hogmanay
1. Noun. New Year's Eve in Scotland.
Definition of Hogmanay
1. n. The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant.
Definition of Hogmanay
1. Proper noun. (Scotland) New Year's Eve. ¹
2. Proper noun. (Scotland) A celebration or gift for New Year's Eve. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hogmanay
1. a Scottish celebration [n -NAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hogmanay
Literary usage of Hogmanay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"Having descended and recited their runes at the door, the hogmanay men are ...
hogmanay of the sack, hogmanay of the sack, Strike the hide, Strike the hide. ..."
2. The Cabinet: A Series of Essays, Moral and Literary by Archibald Bell, Henry Glassford Bell (1835)
"hogmanay—THE LAST NIGHT OF THE YEAR. —— Age ; libertate Decembri, (Quando ita
Majores voluerunt) utere. HoR. MY sober readers will conclude that, ..."
3. The Scot Abroad by John Hill Burton (1900)
"... AND THE hogmanay —THE PETES DBS FOUX AND THE DAFT DAYS — FRENCH EDUCATION AND
MANNERS. THE long and close connection with France could not fail to leave ..."
4. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"The children on coming to the door cry, 'hogmanay !' which is in itself a sufficient
announcement of their demands ; but there are other exclamations which ..."
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