haggihs.html - n.
a Scottish dish consisting of a sheep's or calf's offal mixed with suet, oatmeal, etc., and boiled in a bag made from the animal's stomach or in an artificial bag. [ME: orig. unkn.]

haggihs.html - n.
1 a legend etc. used to illustrate a point of the Law in the Talmud; the legendary element of the Talmud.
2 a book recited at the Passover Seder service.

Haggadic adj. [Heb., = tale, f. higgíd tell]

haggihs.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 looking exhausted and distraught, esp. from fatigue, worry, privation, etc.
2 (of a hawk) caught and trained as an adult.

--n.

a haggard hawk.

haggardly adv. haggardness n. [F hagard, of uncert. orig.: later infl. by HAG(1)]

haggihs.html - n.
a Scottish dish consisting of a sheep's or calf's offal mixed with suet, oatmeal, etc., and boiled in a bag made from the animal's stomach or in an artificial bag. [ME: orig. unkn.]

haggihs.html - v. & n.
--v.

intr. (often foll. by about, over) dispute or bargain persistently.

--n.

a dispute or wrangle.

haggler n. [earlier sense 'hack' f. ON hæggva HEW]

haggihs.html - n.
1 an ugly old woman.
2 a witch.
3 = HAGFISH.

haggish adj. [ME hegge, hagge, perh. f. OE hógtesse, OHG hagazissa, of unkn. orig.]