Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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OON, n.2 A dish of thickened milk or whey beaten up. Cf. Fro, n., 2. Hist.Highl. 1703 M. Martin W. Islands (1884) 202:
Oon, which in English signifies froth, is a dish used by several of the islanders . . . in time of scarcity, when they want bread. . . . A quantity of milk or whey is boiled in a pot, and then it is wrought up to the mouth of the pot with a long stick of wood, having a cross at the lower end. It is turned about like the stick for making chocolate; and being thus made, it is supped with spoons.Sc. 1831 J. Logan Sc. Gael (1876) II. 125:
Oon froth is a quantity of milk or whey boiled, and then worked up by a stick having a cross part at the lower end. This substitute for more substantial fare was often used by the poor of the Western Isles.
