kiddhoge
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Noun[edit]
kiddhoge (plural kiddhoges)
- (Ireland) Any cloth worn over the head or shoulders as a shawl, blindfold, etc.
- 1931, Carleton's Country, page 55:
- The girls had been out to the oat-stacks, each with a kiddhoge (cloth) over her eyes to pull out a stalk and see when she'd be getting married.
- 2005, Michael C. White, The Garden of Martyrs, →ISBN, page 142:
- In the back of the meetinghouse, on the same side as the defense, sat an old woman with a black kiddhoge over her head and a young woman holding a baby wrapped in a blanket.