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  • noun A simple Scots food made from oatmeal and water.

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Examples

  • Jamie had a few handfuls of oats in a small bag in his sporran, and forced me to eat drammach-oats mixed with cold water.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • "I should have warned ye before that we'd likely end up sleeping in haystacks, wi 'naught but heather ale and drammach for food."

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Duncan, who had risen before dawn every day of his life, usually in the expectation of a dry crust or at most, a bit of drammach-oatmeal mixed with water-woke now to find a steaming pot of tea beside his bed, accompanied by a bowl of creamy parritch, liberally garnished with honey and cream, toast drenched in butter, eggs fried with ham.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • We sat down, therefore, in a howe of the hill-side till the mist should have risen, and made ourselves a dish of drammach, and held a council of war.

    Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

  • We lay there (for the banks hid us), drank again and again, bathed our chests, let our wrists trail in the running water till they ached with the chill; and at last, being wonderfullv renewed, we got out the meal-bag and made drammach in the iron pan.

    Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

  • Our only food was drammach and a portion of cold meat that we had carried from the Cage; and as for drink, Heaven knows we had no want of water.

    Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

  • We sat down, therefore, in a howe of the hill-side till the mist should have risen, and made ourselves a dish of drammach, and held a council of war.

    Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Our only food was drammach and a portion of cold meat that we had carried from the Cage; and as for drink, Heaven knows we had no want of water.

    Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • We lay there (for the banks hid us), drank again and again, bathed our chests, let our wrists trail in the running water till they ached with the chill; and at last, being wonderfully renewed, we got out the meal-bag and made drammach in the iron pan.

    Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • "Three days wi 'nothing; a week with naught more than drammach-a handful of oats and a little milk.

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