different between onion vs stovies

English

Alternative forms

• onyon (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English onyon, union, oinyon, borrowed from Anglo-Norman union et al. and Old French oignon, from Latin ?ni?nem, accusative of ?ni? (“onion, large pearl”), which had also been borrowed into Old English as ynne, ynnel?ac (“onion”) (> Middle English hynne-leac, henne-leac). Also displaced Middle English knelek (“onion”) and the inherited term ramsons.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nj?n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /???j?n/
• Rhymes: -?nj?n

Noun

onion (plural onions)

1. A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
2. The bulb of such a plant.
   • 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:

     dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

3. (uncountable) The genus as a whole.
4. (obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
5. (colloquial, chiefly archaic) A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

Synonyms

• (vegetable): violet (UK dialect)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• chive
• scallion
• shallot

Welsh

Noun

onion m (singulative onionyn)

1. Alternative form of wynwyn (“onion”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “wynwyn, wnion, winion, winiwn, &c.”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From a blend of stoved (“stewed”) + tatties (“potatoes”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Source? Why not just from stove + the common Scottish -ie diminutive?”)

Noun

stovies pl (plural only)

1. A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
   • 1975, Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min? Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood, page 203,

     At home, after the fun of Dookin? for Apples was over we sat round a huge dish of delicious stovies, which had cooked very slowly on the top of the stove in a covered pan, with salt and pepper and knobs of butter. Threepenny bits and charms were hidden in the stovies.

   • 2008, Alan Bews, One Boy?s Dinner Please, page 44,

     During the winter months my granny always made me stovies on a Saturday and she would spoon them on top of the hot pie and I would sit at a table in front of the fire eating contentedly and thinking about the films I had seen that morning. Stovies, as my grandmother made them, were potatoes and onions cut into pieces and cooked slowly in a pan with only a covering of water at the bottom of the pan, a tablespoonful of roast beef dripping and some salt and pepper. They were delicious.

   • 2012, Jessie Macquarrie, Camus Calling, AuthorHouse UK, page 8,

     They accepted her offer graciously, not having a clue what ‘stovies’ might be. Meg soon explained that stovies was a traditional hearty scots meal made from potatoes, onions and left over meat served as a stew.

Anagrams

• Soviets, soviets, sovites