hoddengray

English

Alternative forms

hoddengrey

Etymology

Perhaps related to English hoiden (“rustic, clownish”) and gray.

Adjective

hoddengray (not comparable)

(Scotland, archaic) A coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scottish peasants.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hoddengray”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)