hogmanay

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  • Stirling Castle Esplanade, tomorrow, 10pm (01786 274 000), £25, www. stirling hogmanay. com
  • Perth Concert Hall, tomorrow, 10pm (0845 612 6320), tickets are £12-£15, www. hogmanay.net/events/perth
  • Get up and gie's our hogmanay! "{ —  Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
  • 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_. —  Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
  • 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." —  Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
 

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/ˈhɑgmɛnej, mænej/
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