holghe

Yola

Alternative forms

• haoleghey, holgave

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔːɫˈɡiː/, /hɔːɫˈɡiːv/

Noun

holghe

1. Shrove Tuesday

Related terms

• die oaskean
• Michaulmas Die

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