Definition of Hogmanay

1. Noun. New Year's Eve in Scotland.

Generic synonyms: December 31, New Year's Eve

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

Hoffmann's duct
Hoffmann's muscular atrophy
Hoffmann's phenomenon
Hoffmann's reflex
Hoffmann's sign
Hoffmannsthal
Hofmann's bacillus
Hofmeister's operation
Hofmeister-Polya anastomosis
Hofmeister gastrectomy
Hofmeister series
Hofstadterian
Hogarth
Hogarthian
Hogmanay
Hogness box
Hogrebe
Hogtown
Hogwarts
Hohenlinden
Hohenzollern
Hohenzollern empire
Hoheria
Hoheria populnea
Hohhot
Hohokam
Hoisanese
Hoka
Hokan

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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