Plural of crowdie; multiple servings or varieties of the Scottish grain-and-broth porridge dish.
From 'crowdie' (Scottish oatmeal dish) + '-s' (plural). The term remained regional to Scotland and Northern England, documented in dialect collections from the 1800s onward.
While 'crowdies' sounds archaic now, it was everyday vocabulary for Scottish servants and laborers who ate this cheap, filling grain porridge regularly—a linguistic snapshot of historical class and diet.
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