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  • Haggis, nor “painch, tripe, and thairm,” and all those rural dainties which you celebrate as “warm-reekin, rich!”

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • An 'what poor cot-folk pit their painch in, [put, paunch]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • 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

  • A short glossary: sonsie = cheerful, happy aboon = above painch = paunch thairm = cat gut dight = wipes Site Map

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2008

  • (sonsie = cheeky) (aboon = above) (painch = stomach, thairm = intestine)

    a Brit different 2009

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