holghe

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English hole (“wholly”) + Middle English gẹ̄ve (“to give”). Literally, to give out meat and oil before Ash Wednesday.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɔlɡiː/, /ˈhɔːlɡeː/, /ˈhɔlɡeːv/

Noun

holghe

  1. Shrove Tuesday

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 47
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.