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