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sugan

UK/ˈsuː.ɡən/

sugan noun: a straw rope.

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 sugan

pluralsugans
alternative formsoogan
alternative formsugaun
alternative formsugawn
alternative formsuggan

Origin of sugan

Borrowed 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 soogan.

Words formed from sugan

  • sugan chair

Questions about sugan

What does sugan mean?
Sugan means a straw rope.
What part of speech is sugan?
Sugan is a noun.
How do you pronounce sugan?
Sugan is pronounced /ˈsuː.ɡən/ (UK).
What is the plural of sugan?
The plural of sugan is sugans.

Words near sugan in the dictionary

  1. Suga
  2. Sugahara
  3. Sugaharas
  4. sugammadex
  5. Sugamo
  6. sugan
  7. sugandhbala
  8. sugans
  9. sugar
  10. sugar acid
  11. sugar acids

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