Example Sentences

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Yes, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer tucked in a bib and tucked into the haggis, accompanied by neeps and tatties, cute Scottish names for turnips and potatoes, mashed and buttered.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

The night is traditionally marked with a supper of haggis, accompanied by neeps and tatties - mashed turnips and potatoes.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025

The “Haggis, Neeps & Tatties” — neeps and tatties are turnips and potatoes and haggis is, well, a lot of things — gets a rating of 3.4.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2021

The theme was Scottish, in honor of Carnegie, and, after a lunch of braised short ribs Balmoral and roasted tatties, Judy Woodruff, the PBS news anchor, began the ceremony.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2016

It’s all very tidy and pretty in a wifely way, but she’ll have dug up her geraniums to plant tatties for the War Effort.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein