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full Scottish breakfast

full Scottish breakfast noun: a breakfast of kippers and porridge, sometimes including other Scottish foods such as oatcakes and haggis.

Noun

full Scottish breakfast (plural full Scottish breakfasts)

  1. A breakfast of kippers and porridge, sometimes including other Scottish foods such as oatcakes and haggis.
    • When we were not lazily enjoying a daintily served Continental breakfast in our room we were tucking into a full Scottish breakfast - porridge, oatcakes and the delicate Loch Fyne kippers.1976, Ashley Courtenay, Let's Halt Awhile in Great Britain and Ireland
    • Fortify yourself with a full Scottish breakfast of smoked kippers, haggis, and creamy porridge.2004, Travel & Leisure
  2. A full breakfast fry up including distinctively Scottish ingredients such as Lorne sausage and haggis.
    • It wasn't a full Scottish breakfast, but Fiona had quickly caught on to the fact that I was not going to partake in some elements of the full breakfast. I couldn't quite stomach haggis or black pudding[…]2024 March 26, Erica Ruth Neubauer, Secrets of a Scottish Isle, Kensington Books, →ISBN

Forms of full Scottish breakfast

pluralfull Scottish breakfasts

Questions about full Scottish breakfast

What does full Scottish breakfast mean?
Full Scottish breakfast means a breakfast of kippers and porridge, sometimes including other Scottish foods such as oatcakes and haggis.
What part of speech is full Scottish breakfast?
Full Scottish breakfast is a noun.
What is the plural of full Scottish breakfast?
The plural of full Scottish breakfast is full Scottish breakfasts.

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