quig-nogs

Updated: October 9, 2025

"Why, that the cows pray on Christmas-eve. Nurse says that at twelve o'clock to-night all the cows in their stalls will be on their knees, if only somebody is there to see. So, as it's near twelve by the tall clock indoors, I've come to see," she wound up. "It's quig-nogs, I expect. I never heard of it." "Nurse says they kneel and make a cruel moan, like any Christian folk.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Noughts and Crosses : Stories, Studies and Sketches