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bysacks

bysacks is the plural of bysack.

Meaning of bysack

Noun

bysack (plural bysacks)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal) A wallet.
    • (Colin alone) Ah, Colin, thou’rt a prodigal; a thriftless loon thou’st been, that cou’d na’ keep a little pelf to thysall when thou had’st got it; now thou may’st gang in this poor geer to thy live's end, and worse too for aught I can tell; ’faith, mon, ’twas a smeart little bysack of money thou...1772, Richard Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover. A Comedy., act III

Questions about bysacks

What is bysacks the plural of?
Bysacks is the plural of bysack.

Words near bysacks in the dictionary

  1. Byrums
  2. byrunning
  3. bys
  4. bysack
  5. Bysacki
  6. bysacks
  7. Bysacky
  8. Bysaki
  9. Bysaky
  10. byshop
  11. byshops

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