Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Scottish dish consisting of a mixture of the minced heart, lungs, and liver of a sheep or calf mixed with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasonings and boiled in the stomach of the slaughtered animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dish made of a sheep's heart, lungs, and liver, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, salt, and pepper, and boiled in a bag, usually the stomach of a sheep.
- noun A sheep's head and pluck minced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
traditional Scottish dish made fromminced offal andoatmeal etc,boiled in thestomach of asheep etc; traditionally served withneeps andtatties and accompanied withwhisky .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And the word haggis or haggesse turns out to be an alternative name for magpie.
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And the word haggis or haggesse turns out to be an alternative name for magpie.
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The event usually allows for people to start eating just after the haggis is presented.
robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Hey, if I can eat street food all over Thailand every year, and not get sick, I can certainly eat one bite of haggis from a cart in NY.
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I certainly hope you people eating haggis from a feculant food cart have all your shots.
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"A haggis is a very good thing, it's fit for a king's table."
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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I’d sooner eat haggis from a pathogen-laden vendor cart than live in New Jersey.
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That’s how haggis is sold at chip shops in the UK.
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Rudy McBagel stu, don’t what chippy you’ve been in but if haggis is served it’s always as nature intended.
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After all haggis is only oatmeal … and uh … sheep’s heart … not so bad … and sheep’s lungs … uh .. and sheep’s stomach … hmm … I think I’m gonna be ill.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another hero DONE! “The Scotsman” 2007
trivet commented on the word haggis
Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
February 13, 2007
frogapplause commented on the word haggis
I'll see your haggis and raise you a black pudding!
October 25, 2008
dontcry commented on the word haggis
Love a's pronunciation! Almost makes it sound edible!
December 2, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word haggis
Really? I think it just sounds jarring. It nearly blew me out of my seat.
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I've eaten haggis and it was actually pretty good. I think it was probably some horribly processed Americanized haggis, though—if such a thing even exists—and would not be surprised to try it in Scotland someday and find out it doesn't taste at all like the kind I had.
December 2, 2009
bilby commented on the word haggis
The vegetarian haggis is excellent.
December 2, 2009
gangerh commented on the word haggis
Can only be the word that causes the jocularity, for the dish itself is scrumptious, esp. with tatties'n'neaps. Och, and an 80/- ale, or a malt.
December 3, 2009
reesetee commented on the word haggis
Haha! I like that pronunciation too. Although I did eat haggis once (in Scotland), I still wouldn't get near it again if you paid me.
December 3, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word haggis
bilby: :-)
December 3, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word haggis
"It sometimes happens that the bladder bursts during cooking and spills out it contents. To avoid this, wrap the haggis in a napkin, as if it were a galantine, before putting it into boiling water." - from Alfred Suzanne's recipe for haggis in his book La Cuisine Anglaise
June 26, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word haggis
See Vegetarian Haggis.
September 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word haggis
Usage/historical note can be found on spices but since that has so many comments, I'll just put it here too for convenience:
"Spices hung on in isolated pockets, but they were not what they had once been. Today the astute culinary archaeologist can still find such relics as spiced bread in Devon, and further north there is a plethora of richly spiced puddings--Scotland's national dish, the spicy haggis, is essentially a medieval pudding. Scandinavia and the Baltic have preserved several remnants of medieval cooking, largely in biscuits, breads, cakes, and liqueurs...."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 303
December 6, 2016