Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of soup.

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Examples

  • 'Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings, cousin Crosbie -- ye little ken what some of your friends were obliged to do yon time for a sowp of brose, or a bit of bannock.

    Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

  • ‘Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings, cousin Crosbie — ye little ken what some of your friends were obliged to do yon time for a sowp of brose, or a bit of bannock.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Some have said of me, that I taught, that the saule of man should sleap untill the last day; but I know suirlie, and my faith is such, that my saule sail sowp [431] with my Saviour this nycht, or it be sex houris, for whome I suffer this. "

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Ye little ken what some of your friends were obliged to do yon time for a sowp of brose or a bit of bannock. '"

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

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