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spleughan

spleughan 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 spleughan

pluralspleughans

Questions about spleughan

What is spleughan the alternative form of?
Spleughan is the alternative form of spleuchan.

Words near spleughan in the dictionary

  1. splents
  2. splet
  3. splette
  4. spleuchan
  5. spleuchans
  6. spleughan
  7. spleughans
  8. splib
  9. splibs
  10. splice
  11. splice edit

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