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  

/ ˈsuː-, ˈsəʊənz /

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

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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The master of the house, who was of Scotch descent, called it "sowens," and declared that every one present must eat some with butter and salt if he desired to have luck till next All-hallow Eve.

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If you had no teeth and no digestion, you were allowed a pint and a half of sowens porridge instead; and thus helped your portion of exhausted cavalry mount or your bit of tough mule-meat down.

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

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