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单词 sowens
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sowensn.

Brit. /ˈsaʊ(ᵻ)nz/, /ˈsəʊ(ᵻ)nz/, U.S. /ˈsaʊ(ə)nz/, /ˈsoʊ(ə)nz/, Scottish English /ˈsʌʊᵻnz/, /ˈsoᵻnz/, /ˈsuᵻnz/, Irish English /saʊnz/
Forms: 1500s sowannis, 1600s sownis, 1600s–1800s sowins, 1700s swoons, 1700s– sowens, sowings, sewings, sooins, so'ns, 1800s sowans, sooans, sooens, sones; sweens, swins, etc.
Etymology: apparently < Gaelic súghan, súbhan, the liquid used in preparing ‘sowens’ (= Irish súghán, subhán sap, juice), < súgh, súbh sap.
Scottish (and Irish English).
An article of diet formerly in common use in Scotland (and some parts of Ireland), consisting of farinaceous matter extracted from the bran or husks of oats by steeping in water, allowed to ferment slightly, and prepared by boiling.A number of phrases and idiomatic uses are illustrated in the Eng. Dial. Dict.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun]
polentaOE
papelotec1400
pottagea1500
crowdy-mowdy?a1513
drowsen1519
pease porridge?1548
plum pottage1574
sowens1582
grout1587
orgementa1590
plum porridge1591
loblolly1597
pease pottage1600
girt-brew1620
washbrew1620
lentil-porridge1622
hominy1630
porridgea1643
samp1643
nettle-pottage1659
nettle-porridge1661
crowdie1668
suppawn1670
mush1671
rockahominy1674
stirabouta1691
praiseach1698
sagamité1698
brochan1700
atole1716
burgoo1750
purry1751
fungee1789
pepper porridge1803
kasha1808
mamaliga1808
skilligalee1819
bean-porridge1821
skilly1839
sap porridge1842
corn-mush1846
oatmeal mush1850
pap1858
ugali1860
oatmeal1873
mealie-meal1880
mealie-pap1880
uji1889
sadza1899
nsima1907
putu papa1910
posho1927
putu1949
ogi1957
whey-porridge-
α.
1582 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 168 Scho wald leiff to sie his bairnis beg thair meit; he culd cun sowannis better nor aill.
1625 Sc. Acts, Chas. I (1870) V. 182/2 Actis maid anent the pryceis of sownis and englishe beir.
1677 W. Nicolson Gloss. Cumbrian Dial. in Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. (1870) 9 319 Sowins, outshellings.
1698 M. Martin Late Voy. St. Kilda iii. 114 These Sowens (i.e. Flummery) being blended together, produce good Yest.
1732 J. Swift Pastoral Dialogue in Misc. III. i. 38 See, where Norah with the Sowins comes.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 84 At night they sup on sowens or flummery of oat-meal.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 163 Till butter'd So'ns, wi' fragrant lunt, Set a' their gabs a steerin.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 101 I was bred a plain man at my father's frugal table, and I should like well would my..family permit me to return to my sowens.
1855 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy iii. 49 I had..an excellent supper of sowans with milk, and bread and cheese.
1885 W. Ross Aberdour & Inchcolme II. 26 He found the goodwife busy preparing sowans.
figurative.1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 108 The Christian souls..who were hungering for spiritual manna, having been fed but upon sour Hieland sowens by..the last minister.β. 1776 J. Pringle Disc. Health Mariners 18 (note) This rural food, in the North, is called sooins.1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 68 632 What is called sooins in Scotland, and much used by the common people there.1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 478 Extendin' your notes, as they ca't, ower your sooens and sma' beer.1899 J. Spence Shetland Folk-lore 174 Groats, and ootsiftins, from the last of which that delicious food called sooans..are made.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as sowen-cog, sowen-kit, sowen-mug, sowen-porridge, etc.
ΚΠ
1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets ii. 13 The Supper Sowin-Cogs and Bannocks.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1876) I. 174 A milsie, and a sowen-pale.
1725 in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (1776) II. 143 A spurtle and a sowen mug.
1729 in Paterson Hist. Musselburgh (1857) 164 Although the sowin pot should cool.
1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. 139 'Tis fa'en in the sowen kit.
1793 W. Fullarton Gen. View Agric. Ayr 114 The spence in which were stored the meal-chest, sowen-tubs, besoms, and saddles.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sowens-porridge, a dish of pottage, made of..cold sowens, by mixing meal with the sowens, while on the fire.
1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie III. xxiv. 200 Something about a sowan-cog.
1900 Daily Mail 2 May 5/3 Sowan porridge, our new delicacy, made from fermented oats.
C2.
sowens-say n. a sieve for sowens.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > sieving > sieve or riddle
riddereOE
riddlelOE
boultel1266
temse?1362
reeing-sieve1378
bolt-clothc1425
bolt-pokec1440
bulstarec1440
bigg-riddle1446
oat riddle1446
bolting-tunc1485
bolter1530
bolting-tub1530
bolting-pipe1534
bolting-poke1552
gingerbread temse?1562
bolting-hutch1598
reeving-sieve1613
hutch1619
temzer1696
ree1728
oat-ridder1743
harp1788
bunt1796
bolting-machine1808
sowens-say1825
slap-riddle1844
bolt1847
flour-bolt1874
purifier1884
flour-bolter1888
plansifter1905
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Say The sowens-say is supported by two bars laid across the tub.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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