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Hogmenay

Hogmenay is the obsolete 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.

Forms of Hogmenay

pluralHogmenays

Questions about Hogmenay

What is Hogmenay the obsolete form of?
Hogmenay is the obsolete form of Hogmanay.

Words near Hogmenay in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hogmenay (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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