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Onion vs Stovies - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between onion and stovies

is that onion is a monocotyledonous plant (allium cepa ), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice while stovies is a traditional scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.

onion

English

(wikipedia onion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa ), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  • The bulb of such a plant.
  • * 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
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  • 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
  • (uncountable) The genus as a whole.
  • A ball.
  • (colloquial, chiefly, archaic) A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

    • Derived terms

    See also

    * chive * scallion * shallot

    References

    stovies

    English

    (wikipedia stovies)

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
  • * 1975 , Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min? Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood , page 203,
    • At home, after the fun of Dookin? for Apples was over we sat round a huge dish of delicious stovies', which had cooked very slowly on the top of the stove in a covered pan, with salt and pepper and knobs of butter. Threepenny bits and charms were hidden in the ' stovies .
  • * 2008 , Alan Bews, One Boy?s Dinner Please , page 44,
    • During the winter months my granny always made me stovies' on a Saturday and she would spoon them on top of the hot pie and I would sit at a table in front of the fire eating contentedly and thinking about the films I had seen that morning. ' Stovies , as my grandmother made them, were potatoes and onions cut into pieces and cooked slowly in a pan with only a covering of water at the bottom of the pan, a tablespoonful of roast beef dripping and some salt and pepper. They were delicious.
  • * 2012 , Jessie Macquarrie, Camus Calling , AuthorHouse UK, page 8,
    • They accepted her offer graciously, not having a clue what ‘stovies'’ might be. Meg soon explained that ' stovies was a traditional hearty scots meal made from potatoes, onions and left over meat served as a stew.

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