scrowler

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noun

A pilchard cooked by scrowling.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounscrowler (plural scrowlers)

plural scrowlers

  1. CornwallA pilchard cooked by scrowling.

    […] every town a little later will be exceedingly fragrant with the odour of 'scrowlers' — which is to say, fried pilchards.

    1893, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 56
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