Sowens

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A food item made using the starch remaining on the inner husks of oats after milling Scotland, plural, plural-only

    "It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her."

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flummery

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"It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her."

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