The animals paraded up the gangplank two by two but Noah sent them to bed separately.
The Scottish Word:

Hochmagandy.

“There’ll be no hochmagandy on this boat. Quines this wye louns thon wye.”

Translate:

hochmagandy, houghmagandy, houghmagandie: fornication, sex.

“There will be no fornication on this boat. Girls this way, boys that way.”

[hochmagandy spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

Illustration Friday.
parade – up the gangplank two by two.

The Scottish Word: hochmagandy with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

5 thoughts on “Hochmagandy.

  1. First heard this word in an episode of The Sweeney, uttered by a visiting Scots policeman. Such a great sounding word.

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