Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found.
Examples
“Ah, but how much on the respective "hogmanay" bashes ?”
“Farther on, Gib Dempster's dame, Kate, is at her door, with the bottle in her hand, to give another menyie of maskers their "hogmanay," in the form of a dram; and Gib is at her back, eyeing her with a squint, to count how many interlusive applications of the cordial she will make to her own throat before she renounce her _opportunity_.”
“He is no sooner at the door than Geordie Jamieson accosts him in the usual style, and says he has come for his "hogmanay;" but John, knowing the state of the bottle, begins a loud cough, in the midst of the smoke, and cries, as he runs away from his house and visitor, (whom he pretends not to see for the smoke.) "It's a deevil o 'a hardship to be smeeked oot o' ane's ain hoose.”
“I wish you could have seen about a hundred children, being almost entirely supported by their fathers 'or brothers' labor, come down yesterday to dance to the pipes, and get a piece of cake and bannock, and pence apiece (no very deadly largess) in honor of hogmanay.”
“Send us in your XVs of 2009 over the next two weeks and we'll collate the votes, find the pictures and present you the benchmark performers you voted for just before hogmanay (GMT).”
“Mr. Brown would do well to loosen his necktie and raise a dram to the future of the British economy over hogmanay rather than beating his chest.”
“If you REALLY want to see hogmanay, head north and go to a small town or into the country.”
“If you’d like to extend your stay, there’s an additional five-minute version of the Scottish boating chorus, an annual tradition called “hogmanay.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hogmanay’.
-
phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
habanera, habile, habiliment, hackle, hackney, hadal, hame, hank, hansom, hapax, hark, harl and 568 more...
-
outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22418 more...
-
scots words
gowk, wellkenspeckled, dowie, crivvens, clashmaclavers, kludgie, perjink, puddock, well-kenspeckled, gaberlunzie, wheesht, thrawn and 65 more...
-
hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
-
Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
-
Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
-
kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
-
...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
-
Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2000
1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
segue, palimpsest, bête noire, farrago, expatiate, nadir, protean, fulsome, constitutional, quondam, sinecure, vainglory and 324 more...
-
wackyvorlon's list
herein, execrable, extirpate, ameliorate, sawbuck, obstreperous, truculent, festinate, exiguous, exsanguinate, vehement, vex and 135 more...
-
Scottish Stuff
Words related to the land of my birth.
kilt, brae, loch, sporran, broth, bagpipes, skean dhu, glengarry bonnet, bahoochy, glaswegian, hogmanay, poke and 9 more...
-
December Observances
A list of holidays that usually take place in December. Usually. ::coughHanukkahcough::
septmontium, christmas, solstice, hanukkah, saturnalia, kwanzaa, festivus, sinterklaas, hogmanay, yule, xmas, brumalia and 5 more...
-
gift smift
donation, lagniappe, endow, knack, bequest, giveaway, bestow, hogmanay, munificent, largesse, bonsella, beneficence and 54 more...
-
Winter Holidays
Festivals occurring on or near the winter solstice and associated vocabulary.
winter solstice, saturnalia, christmas, grianstad an ghei..., yule, hogmanay, wren day, boxing day, sol invictus, hanukkah, kwanzaa, midwinter and 15 more...
-
Fun-Fun
Festivals, holidays and assorted convivialities. Maybe even games.
chúxì, songkran, ramadhan, hogmanay, vesak, winternights, diwali, eid, halloween, bloomsday, april fools' day, festa dei ceri and 39 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hogmanay.
fbharjo literally new year's gift Sep 20, 2009
bilby Hogmanay, Inverness
years march toward the gunfire
falling soldier-like into their graves
I survive, for now
bless me with mist and an emerald castle
a Flora MacDonald as stout in clutching night as she is by daylight
and there's piddling little of that
cathedral bells howl louder than dogs
both midnight curs and
terrified of wanton starbursts
cars grow frosticles
windows flutter open for happy new year street-perving
2008 is born in Scotland as anywhere
swift-flowing Ness falters not
for wavering drunks on bridge
for tide, for fate, for me
when silence dawns I'll be gone
when silence reigns I'll be dust or mud on mallard-feet
when piper calls my tune I will return
aye bonnie Scotland
craig and ben, cairn and seagull-tipped skerry
cries again, and I hear Jan 1, 2008