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gowpin

gowpin is the alternative form 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

Forms of gowpin

pluralgowpins

Questions about gowpin

What is gowpin the alternative form of?
Gowpin is the alternative form of gowpen.

Words near gowpin in the dictionary

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

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