holghe

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔlˈɡiː/, /hɔːlˈɡeː/, /hɔlˈɡeːv/

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
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