gowan
See also: Gowan
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots, from Gaelic.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊən
Noun
gowan (plural gowans)
- (Northumbria) The common daisy(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- We twa hae run about the braes,
- and pou’d the gowans fine;
- But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
- sin' auld lang syne.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- Upjohn wrote this slim volume, which, if you recall, was about preparatory schools, and in it, so Kipper tells me, said that the time spent in these establishments was the happiest of our lives. Ye Ed passed it on to Kipper for comment, and he, remembering the dark days at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, when he and I were plucking the gowans fine there, slated it with no uncertain hand.
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- 1788, Robert Burns, 'Auld Lang Syne'
- (mineralogy) Decomposed granite.
References
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- Michael Quinion, World Wide Words, "Pluck the gowans fine"
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
From the original form gollan the marsh marigold.
Noun
gowan (plural gowans)
- The common daisy.
- 1788, Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne:
- We twa hae run about the braes, / and pu’d the gowans fine ; / But we’ve wander’d mony a weary foot, / sin auld lang syne.
- 1788, Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne: