sowens

American  

[soh-uhnz, soo-] / ˈsoʊ ənz, ˈsu- /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. porridge made from oat bran or husks that have been soaked in water, slightly fermented, and then boiled.

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sowens British  

/ ˈsəʊənz, ˈsuː- /

noun

1. a pudding made from oatmeal husks steeped and boiled

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Etymology

Origin of sowens

1575–85; < Scots Gaelic sùghan, derivative of sùgh sap

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Example Sentences

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sowens

Sometimes this word is used for the dish called sowens.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The Indulgence is but a dish of sowens with a muzzle thereafter, to make us for ever dumb dogs that will not bark.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Our sowens are ill sour'd, ill seil'd, ill sauted, ill sodden, thin, an' little o' them.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

The authorities were therefore compelled to devise some new food, and the resourceful genius of a Scotchman introduced a porridge called "sowens" to the Colonel's notice.

From South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time by Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson

Flummery, flum′ėr-i, n. an acid jelly made from the husks of oats: the Scotch sowens: anything insipid: empty compliment.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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