Meanings
plural Hogmanays · alternative Hogmoney
- ScotlandcountableuncountableNew 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 - ScotlandcountableuncountableA celebration or gift for New Year's Eve.
Origin
- Old Frenchaguillanneuf“last day of the year”
- ScotsHogmanay
- EnglishHogmanay
From Scots Hogmanay, probably from Old French aguillanneuf (“last day of the year”).
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Hogmanay. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hogmanay
“Hogmanay.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hogmanay. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hogmanay,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hogmanay.
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