(n.) A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Half of us are vegetarian, so there was a vegetarian haggis too.
(2) Is haggis good?” he asked, curious about British cuisine.
(3) The haggis tolerance test may be useful in Sassenachs.
(4) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
(5) Campaigners intend to hold a rally in New York outside the UN offices attended by Oscar-winning film-maker Paul Haggis.
(6) Richard Haggis Oxford • I do not understand what all the worry's about because after 6 April the economy will go roaring away.
(7) Vegetarian haggis gyoza dumplings You can make your own wrappers, but it's much easier to buy them frozen at Japanese or Oriental shops.
(8) Burns is, according to the poet Edwin Muir, "to the respectable, a decent man; to the Rabelaisian, bawdy; to the sentimentalist, sentimental; to the socialist, a revolutionary; to the nationalist, a patriot; to the religious, pious …" So no doubt, this January at the start of referendum year , even diehard unionists will be searching around for words of his that seem to support their position and, where they can extrapolate them, sprinkling them around with abandon to salt their haggis, neeps and tatties at Burns suppers the length and breadth of the land.
(9) 3 Add freshly chopped coriander, the nutmeg, cumin and some salt and pepper to the haggis mixture, and combine thoroughly.
(10) He was unhappy, and grim, and he gazed at the chairman Keith Vaz with the distaste that Rabbie Burns might have shown to a vegetarian haggis.
(11) These will transition drivers to the correct side of the road – whether travelling south–north or north-south – and avoid cross-border crashes – "a PR disaster worse than horsemeat in haggis", according to one planner.
(12) To start with we had haggis nachos and haggis gyoza dumplings with an Irn Bru dipping sauce, made by my friend Mandy, which were quite incredible.
(13) Cook, Get-Togethers - Burns night at Su Moore's flat Photograph: Mimi Mollica Makes 36–48 2 tbsp sunflower or rapeseed oil 225g vegetarian haggis (about half a packaged vegetarian haggis, such as Macsween vegetarian haggis) 3 garlic cloves, chopped 1 tbsp chopped ginger to taste 5 spring onions, diced Fresh coriander, finely chopped to taste (mint or Thai basil are good alternatives) ½ tsp nutmeg ½ tsp cumin Salt and pepper 48 (2 packs) ready-made gyoza wrappers (thawed as per instructions on packaging) A small glass cold tap water Hot tap water in a measuring jug 1 Begin by making the filling.
(14) This study shows that Scots have higher lipid concentrations than Sassenachs but seem to be resistant to the lipaemic effect of haggis.
(15) "He got up and started this riff on the great scrotum beast the haggis, and he went on for what must have been 20 minutes.
(16) Down the road at Bradbury's butchers, whose shelves heave with haggis, beef links, mealie puddings and clootie dumplings, a few customers have begun to discuss the break-up of the union.
(17) She plans to host a Burns night this year, with homemade haggis (she honed her technique last year by stuffing enough offal into a pig's stomach to feed 30 people, brave woman).
(18) There's a wide selection of teas, a kids' menu, gluten-free and vegan options, and the Sunday brunch is legendary – try the veggie haggis on toast for satisfying hangover stodge.
(19) Generations of schoolchildren had to learn To a Mouse , across the British empire his tribute to a haggis was pronounced at Burns suppers each January, and on TV shows like the BBC’s White Heather Club songs such as Ae Fond Kiss were sung.
(20) She also does a great line in curries and pub grub – think roasted veg vindaloo and vegetarian haggis pasties.
Whisky
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Whiskey
(n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given its timing, he wrote, the book "can't help being about the war", but then whisky had always been "up to its pretty bottle neck" in politics.
(2) Johnson no doubt also sampled the local whisky – he described the place much more favourably than most others they stayed at during their Hebridean tour.
(3) They don’t have to wait three or four years for what may or may not be the marginal difference they make to the whisky product.” Miller’s gin now sells more than all his whisky products put together, making up 80% of total sales.
(4) Between 2008 and 2013, the average annual growth in sales of whisky by UK manufacturers was 6% but there was a drop of 1.6% in 2014.
(5) 3.22pm BST Mr Burnham’s suggestion is a worthy addition to all the rest – the mobile phone charges, the annexation of Faslane, embassies refusing to hold whisky receptions!
(6) However, City sources said that SABMiller is likely to launch a fierce defence against a deal and could instead look to combine with Diageo , the British owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker whisky.
(7) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
(8) The future James I resorted to them on several occasions in Scotland: in 1600, for instance, he had two alleged assassins pickled in whisky, vinegar and allspice, put on trial, and then mutilated.
(9) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
(10) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
(11) The mutagenicity of black tea but not that of whisky was suppressed by catalase.
(12) Drinks that are mostly ethanol, such as gin and vodka, give fewer hangovers (but not none) than those full of congeners, such as red wine or whisky.
(13) Using the whole body counter technique, they show that iron absorption is lowered significantly by addition to the test dose of either normal or dealcoholized whisky, but that there is no difference between these two latter groups.
(14) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(15) One unit is 10ml of pure alcohol, equivalent to a measure of whisky, just over a third of a pint of beer or half a glass of wine.
(16) His film, The Angels' Share, a larky whisky heist, was screened with English as well as French subtitles at the festival, lest the Glaswegian accents prove a barrier for non-Scots.
(17) After all, it was Neuberger who chose not to follow his fellow law lords into the supreme court when it was created three years ago, telling me in a much-quoted BBC interview that the court had been created "as a result of what appears to have been a last-minute decision over a glass of whisky".
(18) Just down the road is the Talisker Whisky Distillery, while if you fancy a dram and a tune, the inn in Carbost has regular live music.
(19) According to the drinks and retail industry-funded website, drinkaware.co.uk , one unit of alcohol equates to approximately one shot of whisky, a third of a pint of beer or half of a standard 175ml glass of wine.
(20) said the dustman, scooping up discarded election posters, wine and whisky bottles, beer cans and other rubbish.