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sowans

sowans is the alternative form of sowens.

Meaning of sowens

Noun

sowens pl (plural only)

  1. (Scotland, plural, plural-only) A food item made using the starch remaining on the inner husks of oats after milling
    • 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.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...
    Synonyms:
    flummery

Questions about sowans

What is sowans the alternative form of?
Sowans is the alternative form of sowens.

Words near sowans in the dictionary

  1. Sowa-Rigpa
  2. sowability
  3. sowable
  4. Sowams
  5. sowan
  6. sowans
  7. sowar
  8. Soward
  9. Sowards
  10. sowarree
  11. sowarrees

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