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gowpens

gowpens is the plural of gowpen.

Meaning of gowpen

Noun

gowpen (plural gowpens)

  1. (Scotland) A bowl made of the two hands cupped together.
    • it was ordered by Marina, who had it framed and set up in her bedroom next to a picture of her brother at twelve or fourteen clad in a bayronka (open shirt) and cupping a guinea pig in his gowpen (hollowed hands) […]1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 313

Questions about gowpens

What is gowpens the plural of?
Gowpens is the plural of gowpen.

Words near gowpens in the dictionary

  1. gownsman
  2. gownsmen
  3. gowpen
  4. gowpenful
  5. gowpenfuls
  6. gowpens
  7. gowpin
  8. gowpins
  9. Gowran
  10. Gowre
  11. Gowrie

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