hogmanay: [17] Hogmanay is the Scottish term for ‘New Year’s Eve’, and so might reasonably be supposed to be of Gaelic origin, but in fact it is not. It appears to come from hoguinané, the Norman dialect version of Old French aguillanneuf, a greeting given when exchanging New Year’s gifts (and possibly a contraction of accueillis l’an neuf ‘welcome the new year’).
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1. Cameron: Ah that's because I went home to Scotland for Hogmanay.
卡梅伦: 我回故乡苏格兰过霍马内.来自互联网
2. Freddie: Hogmanay? What's that? It'sounds like an illness.
弗雷迪: 霍马内? 那是甚 麽 ?听来像是一种疾病.来自互联网
3. Alistair: Oh, it's an old Hogmanay custom.
阿利斯泰尔: 哦, 那是个古老的除夕习俗.来自互联网
4. Hans took a drop too much, but I'll forgive him, as it happened on Hogmanay.
