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stovies
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)
- 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.
- 1975, Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min? Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood, page 203,
Anagrams
- Soviets, soviets, sovites
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stories
English
Pronunciation
Noun
stories
- plural of story
Verb
stories
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of story
Anagrams
- Sorties, restios, rosiest, rossite, sorites, sorties, trioses
Middle English
Noun
stories
- plural of storie
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