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speuchan

speuchan is the alternative form of spleuchan.

Meaning of spleuchan

Noun

spleuchan (plural spleuchans)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) A pouch, especially for tobacco or money.
    • 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.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...

Forms of speuchan

pluralspeuchans

Questions about speuchan

What is speuchan the alternative form of?
Speuchan is the alternative form of spleuchan.

Words near speuchan in the dictionary

  1. spetting
  2. spettle
  3. spetum
  4. spetums
  5. Spetznaz
  6. speuchan
  7. speuchans
  8. Spevak
  9. Spevaks
  10. spew
  11. spew alert

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speuchan (page history and authors); spleuchan (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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