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Hochmagandy

This is defined in the Dictionary of the Scots Language as ‘fornication’, but hochmagandy sounds like a lot more entertaining. John Lauderdale says in a 1796 poem: Be not sair on hough-magandie, As it’s a fit o’ friendly passion, And vera muckle now in fashion. But not everyone is so broadminded and so Robert Tannahill writes in 1805: The priest convenes his scandal court, Tae ken what houghmagandie sport Has been gaun on within the parish, no doubt with some kind of punishment in mind (see Cutty-stool, Trilapse).

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