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Definition of Stovies
1. Noun. A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stovies
1. stewed potatoes [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stovies
Literary usage of Stovies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Universal Traveller: Designed to Introduce Readers at Home to an by Charles Augustus Goodrich (1836)
"There does not, probably, without some foreign interposition, exist in Africa,
a stone house, or one which rises two stovies from the ground. ..."
2. New Cases: Selected Chiefly from Decisions of the Courts of the State of New by Austin Abbott, James MacGregor Smith (1894)
"... as against the remaining next of kin (Citing Quarles v. Quarles, 4 Mass.
680; Kenny r. Tucker, 8 Id. 143; Power's Appeal, 63 Pa. St. 443 : stovies r. ..."
3. A History of Inventions and Discoveries by Johann Beckmann (1817)
"See stovies Account of Westminster, vol. ii. p. 55. The clock at St. Mary's,
Oxford, was also furnished in 1523, out of fines imposed on the students of the ..."
4. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1826)
"... who, in a discussion respecting a great point of national welfare, gives
prominence to such stovies as you have trumped up respecting the temper of the ..."
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