Meanings
- colloquialAn 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 472 more examples
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[…] 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
Origin
See hag, haggis, Mc-, and bag (“an old woman”).
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