full Scottish breakfast

noun

A breakfast of kippers and porridge, sometimes including other Scottish foods such as oatcakes and haggis.

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nounfull Scottish breakfast (plural full Scottish breakfasts)

plural full Scottish breakfasts

  1. A breakfast of kippers and porridge, sometimes including other Scottish foods such as oatcakes and haggis.

    Fortify yourself with a full Scottish breakfast of smoked kippers, haggis, and creamy porridge.

    2004, Travel & Leisure
    1 more example

    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
  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
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