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Scottish dish served at a Burns Supper
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haggis
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dish of chopped entrails, c.1400, now chiefly Scottish, but it was common throughout Middle English, perhaps from Old French agace "magpie," on analogy of the odds and ends the bird collects. The other theory [Klein, Watkins] traces it to Old English haggen ...
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Haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck ( heart, liver and lungs ); minced with onion , oatmeal , suet , spices, and salt , mixed with stock , traditionally encased in the animal's stomach though now often in an artificial casing instead. According ...
Usage examples of haggis.
I may have offended her about the haggis, but I think our guests might be more comfortable with coq au vin.
There were all the traditional favourites like black pudding with scrambled eggs, mutton stovies, and haggis.
For reasons entirely unclear to Kerry, Thomas contrived every despicable, backbreaking chore he could throw at him, from maneuvering an ancient plow behind two old oxen, to duping him into climbing to the top of Din Fallon in search of a haggis nest.
Oh, he still loved the taste of haggis, felt pure boyish joy when his ears were assailed by the sudden skirl of bagpipes.
Our time spent in Scotland gave me great hope that his childhood memories of Dumfries, his obvious love of all things Scottish, from the skirl of bagpipes to his hard-to-believe love of that dreadful dish haggis, might cause him to announce any day after our return to London that we were sailing for Savannah and home.
The haggis screamed, droning in weird multiplicity as Dane's fingers danced spasmodically on one of the tubes, a groaning, wailing, urgent cacophony that tore at Rip's ears and filled his heart with fierceness.
At each place a souvenir program listed the events of the evening and the bill of fare: haggis, tat ties and nee ps Forfar bridies, Pitlochry salad, tea, shortbread, and a "wee dram" for toasting.
And this they did, only getting Chuck away from the mangel-wurzels with some difficulty and by promising him an Ormoloo-burger if he was a good boy and climbed into the Haggis machine and sat quietly.
The food that followed was passing strange, but food nonetheless: we ate raw pressed venison, cocky-leeky, eel porridge, red cole-wart and cabbage and finally our last course, haggis.
I passed the time browsing in the windows of the many tourist shops that stand along it, reflecting on what a lot of things the Scots have given the world - kilts, bagpipes, tam-o'-shanters, tins of oatcakes, bright yellow jumpers with big diamond patterns of the sort favoured by Ronnie Corbett, plaster casts of Greyfriars Bobby looking soulful, sacks of haggis - and how little anyone but a Scot would want them.
Anyhow, the Punta del Sol Hotel at Port of Spain sent an urgent Carlottigram to Rob Roy to order a large consignment of haggis and Scotch whiskey.