stroupach
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stroupach (plural stroupachs)
- (Scotland) a cup of tea.
- 1944, Catherine Macdonald Maclean, Farewell to Tharrus, page 88:
- At six I dressed, and went down to the kitchen to light the fire, thinking to surprise Cordelia by bringing her stroupach up to her in bed on Harvest-morn. But I found that I was not the only one to be up betimes.
- 1992, John Maxwell, “A few ruffled feathers over champagne and duck breast”, in Herald Scotland[1]:
- The trick, my dear madam, is to ensure that the sun is shining on the flowers as you pick them and never to pause, yea even for a stroupach, between picking and starting the mulching process.
- 2009, LUNNAINN NAN GÀIDHEAL[2]:
- With a ‘stroupach’ (cup of tea) in the church hall afterwards (and, as we said the last time, this is one of the best ‘stroupachs’ in London – with a cuppa, cake and a chat in Gaelic or English!).
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- Iseabail Macleod (1999) Scots Thesaurus[3]