gowpen
nounUK /ˈɡaʊpən/
Etymology From Old Norse gaupn (“hollow made by cupped hands”). Doublet of yepsen.
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Scotland A bowl made of the two hands cupped together.
- it was ordered by Marina, who had it framed and set up in her bedroom next to a picture of her brother at twelve or fourteen clad in a bayronka (open shirt) and cupping a guinea pig in his gowpen (hollowed hands) […]1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 313:
- Derived terms
- gowpenful