Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A simple
Scots food made fromoatmeal andwater .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word drammach.
Examples
-
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.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
-
"I should have warned ye before that we'd likely end up sleeping in haystacks, wi 'naught but heather ale and drammach for food."
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
-
Duncan, who had risen before dawn every day of his life, usually in the expectation of a dry crust or at most, a bit of drammach-oatmeal mixed with water-woke now to find a steaming pot of tea beside his bed, accompanied by a bowl of creamy parritch, liberally garnished with honey and cream, toast drenched in butter, eggs fried with ham.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
-
We sat down, therefore, in a howe of the hill-side till the mist should have risen, and made ourselves a dish of drammach, and held a council of war.
-
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 wonderfullv renewed, we got out the meal-bag and made drammach in the iron pan.
-
Our only food was drammach and a portion of cold meat that we had carried from the Cage; and as for drink, Heaven knows we had no want of water.
-
We sat down, therefore, in a howe of the hill-side till the mist should have risen, and made ourselves a dish of drammach, and held a council of war.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
-
Our only food was drammach and a portion of cold meat that we had carried from the Cage; and as for drink, Heaven knows we had no want of water.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
-
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.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
-
"Three days wi 'nothing; a week with naught more than drammach-a handful of oats and a little milk.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.