Crossword-Solution: HINNIES 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Flitches of bacon and 'hands' (_i.e._, shoulders of cured pork, the legs or hams being sold, as fetching a better price) abounded; and for any visitor who could stay, neither cream nor finest wheaten flour was wanting for 'turf cakes' and 'singing hinnies,' with which it is the delight of the northern housewives to regale the honoured guest, as he sips their high-priced tea, sweetened with dainty sugar.

Fancy a confident country-girl--supreme in her own district over the Hobs and Hinnies thereabouts--in conflict with the adroit man of the world, and you have the whole history of Margaret Cooper, and the secret of her misfortune.

From time to time the old woman spoke as if to the children—"Oh ay, hinnies, whisht! whisht! and I'll begin a bonnier ane than that— "Now haud your tongue, baith wife and carle, And listen, great and sma', And I will sing of Glenallan's Earl That fought on the red Harlaw.

From time to time the old woman spoke as if to the children--“Oh ay, hinnies, whisht! whisht! and I’ll begin a bonnier ane than that-- “Now haud your tongue, baith wife and carle, And listen, great and sma’, And I will sing of Glenallan’s Earl That fought on the red Harlaw.

ELIZA: A wedding, woman? Can’t folk have scones and bannocks and singing-hinnies, But you must prate of weddings--you, and all! JUDITH: I meant no harm.