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soogan

soogan is the alternative form of sugan.

Meaning of sugan

Noun

sugan (plural sugans)

  1. (Ireland) A straw rope.
    • Lead him home with a sugan the way you’d lead a bleating goat.1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
  2. (Canada, US) A blanket or bedroll used for camping out.
    • Rawlins was trying to get his soogan tied on behind the saddle.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 30

Forms of soogan

pluralsoogans
alternative formsugan
alternative formsougan

Origin of soogan

From Scots suggan (“light saddle; bedroll”), from Irish súgán (“rope”), from Proto-Celtic *souggo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”), see also Sanskrit सुवति (suvati). Doublet of sugan (“chair”).

Questions about soogan

What is soogan the alternative form of?
Soogan is the alternative form of sugan.

Words near soogan in the dictionary

  1. sooee
  2. sooey
  3. Soofee
  4. Soofeeism
  5. Soofees
  6. soogan
  7. soogans
  8. soogee
  9. soogee-moogee
  10. soogeed
  11. soogeeing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soogan (page history and authors); sugan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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