gowpen
English
Etymology
From Old Norse gaupn (“hollow made by cupped hands”). Doublet of yepsen.
Pronunciation
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Noun
gowpen (plural gowpens)
- (chiefly Scotland) A bowl made of the two hands cupped together.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 313:
- it was ordered by Marina, who had it framed and set up in her bedroom next to a picture of her brother at twelve or fourteen clad in a bayronka (open shirt) and cupping a guinea pig in his gowpen (hollowed hands) […]
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 313: