stovies
stovies noun: a traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
Noun
stovies pl (plural only)
- A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
- At home, after the fun of Dookin′ for Apples was over we sat round a huge dish of delicious stovies, which had cooked very slowly on the top of the stove in a covered pan, with salt and pepper and knobs of butter. Threepenny bits and charms were hidden in the stovies.1975, Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min′ Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood, page 203
- During the winter months my granny always made me stovies on a Saturday and she would spoon them on top of the hot pie and I would sit at a table in front of the fire eating contentedly and thinking about the films I had seen that morning. Stovies, as my grandmother made them, were potatoes and...2008, Alan Bews, One Boy′s Dinner Please, page 44
Origin of stovies
From a blend of stoved (“stewed”) + tatties (“potatoes”).
Questions about stovies
- What does stovies mean?
- Stovies means a traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
- What part of speech is stovies?
- Stovies is a noun.
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