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sowins

sowins 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

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What is sowins the alternative form of?
Sowins is the alternative form of sowens.

Words near sowins in the dictionary

  1. sowing dragon's teeth
  2. sowing one's oats
  3. sowing one's wild oats
  4. sowing the seeds of
  5. sowings
  6. sowins
  7. Sowinski
  8. Sowinskis
  9. sowkin
  10. sowkins
  11. sowl

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