Hogmanay
(noun) New Year’s Eve in Scotland
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Hogmanay (plural Hogmanays)
(Scotland) New Year's Eve.
(Scotland) A celebration or gift for New Year's Eve.
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Source: Wiktionary
Hog`ma*nay" (, n.
Definition: The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 January 2025
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
