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HUGGER-MA-GURR, n. See quot.Abd. 1974 Press & Jnl. (19 Feb.):
Another dish favoured by farm workers was tattie soup into which they crumbled a “corter” of breed and this was called “hugger-ma-gurr”.
[Prob. an arbitrary alteration of Huggery-muggery, in the sense of a jumble, a mix-up, melange.]
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