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Haggis McBaggis en · PROPN

Etymology

See hag, haggis, Mc-, and bag (“an old woman”).

Meanings

  1. (colloquial) An archetypal ugly or frumpy old woman.
    • Haggis McBaggis / Traipsing in the discount store / Dressed in soiled rags / Complete with bedraggled hair 2013, Sereena Nightshade, Dysfunctional Meanderings, page 47:
    • […] Haggis McBaggis, the lady with all the bags she pushed along in a shopping trolley, who sometimes hung around the bus stop but never got on a bus. 2011, Jenny Colgan, Meet Me At The Cupcake Café:
    • Sometimes they say, “I look like an absolute hag,” and sometimes, “I look like Haggis McBaggis.” This is an ugly old woman they seem to have made up. 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye: