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Hogmany

Hogmany is the archaic form of Hogmanay.

Meaning of Hogmanay

Noun

Hogmanay (countable and uncountable, plural Hogmanays)

  1. (Scotland) New Year's Eve.
    • Each year the Hogmanay celebration and the Christmas market on Princes Street Gardens that accompanies it, together with the ever-growing international festival and fringe, eats up more and more of our public spaces.2020 January 5, Kevin McKenna, “Rebel alliance ready to put a halt to the ‘disneyfication’ of Edinburgh”, in The Observer, →ISSN
  2. (Scotland) A celebration or gift for New Year's Eve.

Questions about Hogmany

What is Hogmany the archaic form of?
Hogmany is the archaic form of Hogmanay.

Words near Hogmany in the dictionary

  1. hogman
  2. Hogmanay
  3. Hogmanays
  4. hogmane
  5. hogmanes
  6. Hogmany
  7. hogmen
  8. Hogmenay
  9. Hogmenays
  10. hogmollies
  11. hogmolly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hogmany (page history and authors); Hogmanay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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