supawn (sup an)

[Also suppawn, sep aия, sep on (also, in a D. spelling, sepaen ); of Amer. Ind. origin, prob. connected with pone, formerly paune, Amer. Ind. oppone: see ponel.] A dish consisting of Indian meal boiled in water, usually eaten with milk: often called Ev'n in thy native regions, how I blush To hear the Penn sylvan i ans call thee Mush! On Hudson's banks while men of Belgic spawn Insult and eat thee by the name Suppawn . J. Barlow, Hasty Pudding, i. They ate their supaen and roll iches of an evening, smoked their pipes in the chimney-nook, and upon the Lord's Day waddled their wonted way to the Gereformeerde Kerche. E. L. Bynner, Begum's Daughter, i.