sowens
English
Alternative forms
Noun
sowens pl (plural only)
- (Scotland) A food item made using the starch remaining on the inner husks of oats after milling
- Synonym: flummery
- 1860, Thomas Pattieson, “The Smith and the Fairies”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] Campbell, transl., Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected: With a Translation, volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 61:
- It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her.
Translations
food made from oat husks
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References
- “sowens”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.