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Haggis, nor “painch, tripe, and thairm,” and all those rural dainties which you celebrate as “warm-reekin, rich!”
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An 'what poor cot-folk pit their painch in, [put, paunch]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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We cannot all love Haggis, nor 'painch, tripe, and thairm,' and all those rural dainties which you celebrate as 'warm-reekin, rich!'
Letters to Dead Authors Andrew Lang 1878
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A short glossary: sonsie = cheerful, happy aboon = above painch = paunch thairm = cat gut dight = wipes Site Map
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(sonsie = cheeky) (aboon = above) (painch = stomach, thairm = intestine)
a Brit different 2009
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