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  • May the bursting hurdies of your haggis have gushed warm-reekin' rich when you stabbed into them tonight, and may your single malt be at least thirty years old and still non-corporate.

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: January 2010 Archives 2010

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

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • 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

  • May the bursting hurdies of your haggis have gushed warm-reekin 'rich when you stabbed into them tonight, and may your single malt be at least thirty years old and still non-corporate.

    Progressive Bloggers 2010

  • May the bursting hurdies of your haggis have gushed warm-reekin 'rich when you stabbed into them tonight, and may your single malt be at least thirty years old and still non-corporate.

    Progressive Bloggers 2010

  • Like Burns, they saw "a glorious sight" as the knife trenched the "gushing entrails bright," and most had no problem with the "warm-reekin" dish.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

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  • warm-reekin or warm-reeking is a Scots word used in the poem 'Address to the Haggis' by Robert Burns to convey the sense of anticipation created by food steaming as it is newly taken from the oven or pot. It is different from use of the separate terms warm and reekin or reeking, which could be used to convey a more negative assessment.

    February 5, 2013

  • warm-reeking

    February 5, 2013

  • Och, pipe in Auld Reekie.

    February 5, 2013