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sowens

sowens noun: a food item made using the starch remaining on the inner husks of oats after milling.

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

Synonyms of sowens

Forms of sowens

alternative formsowans
alternative formsowen
alternative formsowins

Questions about sowens

What does sowens mean?
Sowens means a food item made using the starch remaining on the inner husks of oats after milling.
What part of speech is sowens?
Sowens is a noun.

Words near sowens in the dictionary

  1. soweis
  2. Sowell
  3. Sowellian
  4. Sowells
  5. sowen
  6. sowens
  7. sower
  8. Sowerby
  9. Sowerby Bridge
  10. Sowerbys
  11. sowers

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