gowpen

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡaʊpən/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bowl made of the two hands cupped together. Scotland
    — 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) […]

词形变化

gowpens plural gowpin alternative

词源

From Old Norse gaupn (“hollow made by cupped hands”). Doublet of yepsen.
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