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sowens

(ˈsəʊənz; ˈsuː-)

(Cookery) Scot a pudding made from oatmeal husks steeped and boiled

[C16: from Scottish Gaelic sùghan, from sùfgh sap; related to Old High German sūgan to suck]

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This food of north and west Britain (also, with English plural, called sowens; cf.

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