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

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

He could have supped a huge bicker of sowens, and eaten a dozen potatoes; but of what mighty consequence is hunger, so long as it neither absorbs the thought, nor causes faintness?

From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Wilson, Sarah Isabella Augusta, Lady

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