haggis

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They celebrate it by drinking too much and eating haggis, which is like a Hot Pocket stuffed with sheep guts.

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  1. 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.

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  • "If King Kinnemore is the haggis, then the haggis must be King Kinnemore Unless Ceridwen merely used the haggis as a model for a transformation of the King," Kelsey reasoned, but Mickey was backing Diane's logic on this one. —  Spearwielder's Tale 3.htm
  • The others had been to the Crahgs and had heard the shriek of the wild hairy haggis, and not one of them, even Mickey who agreed with the reasoning, seemed excited about the prospect of hunting the thing. —  Spearwielder's Tale 3.htm
  • "If the haggis is Kinnemore, the real Kinnemore, he won't be anxious to attack his own son." —  Spearwielder's Tale 3.htm
  • "I telled ye the haggis was one to be feared," Mickey answered. —  Spearwielder's Tale 3.htm
  • "We know now that the haggis is truly the King," Gary reasoned, using that simple logic to try to force them from their helpless resignation. —  Spearwielder's Tale 3.htm
 

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  1. Middle English hagese; perhaps akin to haggen, to chop; see haggle.
 

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/ˈhægɪs, ɛs/
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