sowan

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsəʊ.ən/

Adverb

sowan

  1. (England dialectal) Very, extremely.
    • 1889 March 23, Kendal and County News, quoted in the EDD:
      It's a sowan girt spot is Manchester.
    • 1950 [1882?], A Lafter O' Farleys in T' Dialects O' Lakeland, 1760-1945:
      […] tha led aald Dixon a sowan terbel time. She war a bonny lass war Dixon lass, en she'd a faace like a posy, en thoo nivver sah sic a bit a pink en white i' thi life; her cheeks war es nice er nicer ner enny pickter, en when she […]

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