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Etymology
From Middle English hole (“whole”) + Middle English geyfe, gẹ̄ve, gave (“to give, gave”). Literally, to give out meat and oil before Ash Wednesday.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɔːɫˈɡiː/, /hɔɫˈɡiː/, /hɔɫˈɡiːv/
Noun
haoleghey
- 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