单词 | sowens |
释义 | sowensn. 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. 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.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. 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). < n.1582 |
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