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Haggis  n.  (Written also haggiss, haggess, and haggies)  A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck.





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"Haggis" Quotes from Famous Books



... are," said Macintosh; "but if Tarrant had sheep's-head, haggis, and whusky itsel' for dinner, he would ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough
... never have looked life fairly in the face to see what was to be done with it. I laughed out loud at last to think of a poor devil like me, in a Scotch garret, with my stockings out at heel and a shilling or two to be dissipated upon, with a smell of raw haggis mounting from below, and old women breathing gin as they passed me on the stairs—wanting to turn my life into easy pleasure. Then I began to see what else it could be turned into. Not much, perhaps. This world is not ...
— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke
... greatest sin," said a Prohibitionist speaker at Glasgow. The gentleman does not seem to have heard of haggis. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 22, 1920 • Various


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