Meanings
- uncountableA simple Scots food made from oatmeal and water.
Jamie had a few handfuls of oats in a small bag in his sporran, and forced me to eat drammach - oats mixed with cold water.
1991, Diana Gabaldon, chapter 25, in Outlander, London: Random House1 more example
We lay there (for the banks hid us), drank again and again, bathed our chests, let our wrists trail in the running water till they ached with the chill; and at last, being wonderfully renewed, we got out the meal-bag and made drammach in the iron pan.
1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLCSynonyms: drammock
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA simple Scots food made from oatmeal and water.
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