haggi

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English

Noun

haggi (plural haggis)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of hajji (one who has participated in a hajj)
    • 1818, Filippo Pananti, Narrative of a Residence in Algiers, page 273:
      With numberless demonstrations of joy, preceded by drums and music, the time is passed in continued embraces; and although ever so limited in their means, the day of return is sure to be one of liberal festivity, in which the Haggi treats all his friends, and relates the wonders he has seen.
    • 1852, The History of the Holy, Military, Sovereign Order of St. John, page 313:
      The Christians on the east bank were ready to ravage the hold cities, when the Saracen massacrers let few escape; and as to the prisoners, these were handed over to the haggis, who mostly cut their throats at Mecca []
    • 1895, Donald Harvey Attfield, A Private Journal in Egypt: From May 1894 to May 1895, page 120:
      The Mecca arrived to-day with what are practically the last pilgrims; for there is only the Zagazig to come now, with the remaining two or three hundred Egyptian 'haggis,' and my time at El Tor will probably be ended for this year.