spleuchan

or spleu·ghan

[ sploo-khuhn ]

noun

, Scot., Irish English.

1. a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spleuchan¹

First recorded in 1775–85, spleuchan is from the Scots Gaelic word spliùchan

Example Sentences

I'll wad the best quid in my spleuchan, ye hae been thinkin about Catherine Roberts, and o' your chance o' findin her single.

From Project Gutenberg

In front of the person, hanging from a belt round the waist, is the “sporran” or “spleuchan,” a pocket-purse covered with fur; and a large “plaid” or scarf, usually wrapped round the body, the ends hanging down from a brooch fastened on the left shoulder, but sometimes gathered up and hanging from the brooch behind, completes the costume.

From Project Gutenberg

I think it highly probable that we owe a further obligation to the worthy Supervisor's presentation of Rob Roy's spleuchan.

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There is no base pertinacity, no overweening conceit, in the Black Douglas, or Claverhouse, or Montrose; in these we find the pure Scottish temper, of heroic endurance and royal pride; but, when, in the pay, and not deceived, but purchased, idolatry of Mammon, the Scottish persistence and pride become knit and vested in the spleuchan, and your stiff Covenanter makes his covenant with Death, and your Old Mortality deciphers only the senseless legends of the eternal gravestone,—you get your weed, earth-grown, in bitter verity, and earth-devastating, in bitter strength.

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“Ye ken Jock Hornbook i’ the Clachan, Deil mak his kings-hood in a spleuchan!

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