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drammach

drammach noun: a simple Scots food made from oatmeal and water.

Noun

drammach (uncountable)

  1. A simple Scots food made from oatmeal and water.
    • We lay there (for the banks hid us), drank again and again, bathed our chests, let our wrists trail in the running water till they ached with the chill; and at last, being wonderfully renewed, we got out the meal-bag and made drammach in the iron pan.1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC
    • Jamie had a few handfuls of oats in a small bag in his sporran, and forced me to eat drammach - oats mixed with cold water.1991, Diana Gabaldon, chapter 25, in Outlander, London: Random House
    Synonyms:
    drammock

Synonyms of drammach

Questions about drammach

What does drammach mean?
Drammach means a simple Scots food made from oatmeal and water.
What part of speech is drammach?
Drammach is a noun.

Words near drammach in the dictionary

  1. dramedies
  2. dramedy
  3. Drametse
  4. Dramione
  5. dramless
  6. drammach
  7. drammed
  8. Drammen
  9. drammer
  10. drammers
  11. dramming

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