spleuchan
English
Alternative forms
- speuchan, spleughan
Etymology
From Goidelic/Scottish Gaelic spliuchan.
Noun
spleuchan (plural spleuchans)
- (Scotland) A pouch, as for tobacco or money.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:
- But I was saying, there’s some siller in the spleuchan that’s like the Captain’s ain, for we’ve aye counted it such, baith Ailie and me.
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 1, p.34.
- 'I wadna hae been in his skin for the best har'st fee that ever was paid into a Lowlander's purse or a Highlander's spleuchan.'
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spleuchan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)