"Wren Day" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈɹɛn ˌdeɪ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Wren Day.wav [Southern-England]
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  1. (Ireland, Isle of Man, Newfoundland, Wales) A custom on December 26 where people, especially boys, hunt a wren (originally a live bird, and now a fake one) and parade it upon a decorated pole for prosperity in the coming year. Wikipedia link: Hunt the Wren Tags: Ireland, Newfoundland, Wales Related terms: wrenboy, St. Stephen's Day Translations (celebration on December 26 where people hunt a wren): peukaloispoikien päivä (Finnish), Wren Day (Finnish), व्रेन डे (vren ḍe) (Hindi), Lá an Dreoilín [masculine] (Irish), Shelg yn Dreean (Manx), Dzień Świętego Szczepana [masculine] (Polish), Охо́та на крапи́вника (Oxóta na krapívnika) [feminine] (Russian), Diwrnod Dryw [masculine] (Welsh), Hela'r Dryw [feminine, masculine] (Welsh)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.