Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
sowens .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural See
sowens .
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Examples
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A Scots poetic example from 1790: 'Twa pints o' weel-boilt solid sowins' an oat-meal beverage.
Archive 2008-04-01 DC 2008
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A Scots poetic example from 1790: 'Twa pints o' weel-boilt solid sowins' an oat-meal beverage.
On boilt DC 2008
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Halliwell explains _sowins_ to be a Northumberland dish of coarse oatmeal and milk, and a _cutty_ spoon to be a very _small_ spoon.
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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At breakfast we had sometimes sowins, and sometimes stirrabout, and sometimes fraughauns and milk; but his cows would hardly give a drop of milk.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706
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It is made of oatmeal, and sometimes of the shellings of oats; and known by the names of sowins or flummery.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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