fig-sew
English
Etymology
From fig + sew (“broth, gravy, juice”).
Noun
fig-sew (plural fig-sews)
- (dialectal, historical) Ale boiled with wheaten bread and figs, a common Good Friday dish.
References
- A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale, North and South of the Sands, in the County of Lancaster