A daisy; a perennial plant or flower.
The ewe-gowan is the common daisy, apparently denominated from the ewe, as being frequently in pastures fed on by sheep.
“Some bit waefuʹ love story, enough to mak the pinks anʹ the ewe-gowans blush to the very lip.”—Brownie of Bodsbeck, i. 215.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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