spleuchan

English

Alternative forms

• speuchan, spleughan

Etymology

From Goidelic/Scottish Gaelic spliuchan.

Noun

spleuchan (plural spleuchans)

1. (archaic, Scotland) A pouch, especially for tobacco or money.
   • 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, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 1, page 34:

     'I wadna hae been in his skin for the best har'st fee that ever was paid into a Lowlander's purse or a Highlander's spleuchan.'

References

• “spleuchan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.