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Definition: Haggis |
HaggisNoun1. (Scotland) made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "haggis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Haggis \Hag"gis\, noun. [Scottish hag to hack, chop, English hack. Formed, perhaps, in imitation of the French hachis (E. hash), from hacher.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Haggis |
| Specialty definitions using "haggis": John Anderson, my Jo. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish. It is usually served with mashed turnips and mashed potatoes ("neeps and tatties").
Although there are many recipes, it is normally made with the following ingredients: sheep's heart, liver, and lungs (or "lights"), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock and traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach for several hours. In this it somewhat resembles other stuffed intestines, otherwise known as sausages, of which it is one of the largest types. Vegetarian recipes also exist, and the best of these make an extremely tasty haggis.
In some ways it resembles scrapple. However it differs in the following ways: it uses sheep offal instead of pig offal and oatmeal instead of cornmeal; it is a sausage rather than a meat loaf; and it is boiled instead of being baked. As a result, the appearance and the flavour are very different.
Haggis is traditionally served with the Burns supper on January 25th, when Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, is commemorated. (He wrote a poem about the haggis). During Burns' lifetime haggis was a popular dish for the poor, since it made use of parts of a sheep that would otherwise have been wasted.
Haggis is widely available in supermarkets in Scotland all the year round, and the cheaper brands are normally packed in artificial casings, rather than stomachs, just as the cheaper brands of sausages are no longer stuffed into animal intestines. In addition, practically all Scottish fish and chips shops will sell their customers a haggis supper. This consists of a small single portion haggis dipped in batter and deep fried with chips; it provides a hot, filling, and very satisfying high-calorie meal for a cold winter's day. There are also fast-food shops that sell haggis burgers, with a patty of fried haggis on a bun.
Since many countries' food safety laws outlaw some of the ingredients in haggis, expatriate Scots and Scots descendants overseas have been known to engage in haggis smuggling to obtain true Scottish haggis.
A rumour circulated in recent years that actually 'haggis' is the name of a small four-legged Scottish Highland creature, which has the limbs on one side shorter than the other side. This meant that it could run around the hills at a steady altitude, without either ascending or descending. However, despite the fact that a high proportion of tourists were found to believe in this creature, no examples of the species has ever been found[1].
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Haggis."
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Screenplays | Don't be hard on the wee boy. His father is going to ga-ga and chop 'em all into haggis. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Haggis Baggis (1958) | |
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| "Haggis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.22% of the time. "Haggis" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.22% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "haggis" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Haggis | Last name | 100 | 84,149 |
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Ending with "haggis": pan-haggis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
haggis | 180 |
haggis recipe | 18 |
enter the haggis | 14 |
haggis tour | 13 |
bad haggis | 9 |
scottish haggis | 8 |
haggis picture | 7 |
besley haggis | 3 |
haggis photo | 3 |
paul haggis | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "haggis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | skopová tlaèenka. (various references) | |
Greek | σκωτική κρεατόπιτα με γέμιση συκωταριάσ & μπαχαρικών, χάγγισ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vagdalttal és zabliszttel töltött birkagyomor. (various references) | |
Manx | haggish. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aggishay.(various references) | |
Russian | телячий рубец с потрохами и приправой. (various references) | |
Scottish | taigeis (haggis; a fat, podgy person). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sarmica od ovčijih iznutrica. (various references) | |
Spanish | morcilla, embutido escoce/s. (various references) | |
Swedish | skotsk hackkorv. (various references) | |
Thai | อาหารเครื่องในที่ประกอบ"้วยหัวใจ ตับและอื่นๆ ของแกะหรือลูกวัว. (various references) | |
Turkish | sakatat yahnisi. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | agace. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "haggis": haggises, haggish. (additional references) | |
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"Haggis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aggies, Aggis, Aggiss, hagas, hagass, Hagege, haggal, Haggas, hagge, Haggin, Haggith, Haggitt, haggus, hagi, hagis, hagiss, hagits, hagus, hargazy, heggs, hegi, higges, higgs, hogges, hoggie, huggies, hugies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "haggis" (pronounced 'Hag"gis'): AEgis, Lungis, Tingis. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-h-i-s" | |
-1 letter: gigas. | |
-2 letters: gags, gash, ghis, giga, gigs, hags, shag, sigh. | |
-3 letters: ais, ash, gag, gas, ghi, gig, hag, has, his, sag, sha. | |
-4 letters: ag, ah, ai, as, ha, hi, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-h-i-s" | |
+1 letter: gashing, haggish, waggish. | |
+2 letters: gaslight, gastight, ginghams, gnashing, haggises, hangings, shaggier, shaggily, shagging. | |
+3 letters: gaslights, haggadist, laughings, shaggiest, waggishly. | |
+4 letters: anguishing, garnishing, gatherings, geophagies, haggadists, jaggheries, scraighing, shagginess. | |
+5 letters: bushranging, changelings, discharging, freightages, gangsterish, geographies, haggadistic, hagiologies, languishing, lighterages, mischarging, shanghaiing, straighting, surcharging, waggishness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 67 67 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- --. --. .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01100111 01100111 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a g g i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0067 0067 0069 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426773737585 |
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