Haggis

Quick meaning: Haggis is a noun meaning plural of haggi (“one who has participated in a hajj”) (alternative spelling of hajjis).

Meaning

plural of haggi (“one who has participated in a hajj”) (alternative spelling of hajjis).

More Meanings

1. A traditional Scottish dish made from minced sheep offal with oatmeal and spices, etc., originally boiled in the stomach of a sheep but now often in an artificial casing, and usually served with neeps and tatties (mashed swede and potatoes) and accompanied with whisky.

Example Sentences

And thank kind heav'n, their country can afford / A tumid haggeſs to adorn their board.

I congratulate the Caledonians on the acquiſition of this new Saint, but wonder if the German crows were ſo civil to refrain from ſo ſavoury a Scotch haggiſs.

HAGGESS, haggas, or haggis, ſort d'appret fait avec des herbes, du larde caupé menu, des épices, des œufs, & du fromage, le tout mis enſemble & bouilli dans une panſe de brebis.

[T]he thousands of Englishmen who annually visit our romantic country can attest, that, even in the wildest Highland glens, something better can be found for their roast-beef stomachs, than sheep's-heads, haggises, and oat-meal cakes.

Word Forms

• haggises
• haggess
• haggies
• haggiss

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include powsowdie, neeps, stovies, skirlie, powsowdy, drammach.

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