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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SOWDIE, n. Also sowdy, soudie, -y. A hotch-potch, a heterogeneous mixture, lit. and fig.; broth. See also Powsowdie. [′sʌudi]Sc. c.1700 Jacob. Relics (Hogg 1819) 20:
For statesmen, for taxmen, for soldiers, what think ye? Where shall ye see such, or find such a soudy?Rnf. 1809 R. Tannahill Poems (1900) 200:
They gat naethin for crowdie but runts boiled tae sowdie.Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto T. Bodkin xiv.:
A tongue that saured o' saep an' sour oudie.