Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pouch or pocket; especially, a tobacco-pouch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A pouch, as for tobacco.
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- noun Scotland A
pouch , as fortobacco .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A spleuchan is a tobacco pouch, occasionally used as a purse.
Chapter L 1917
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“I hae forgotten my spleuchan — Lachlan, gang down to the clachan, and bring me up a pennyworth of twist.”
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When the discourse was finished, he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, replaced it in his sporran, returned the tobacco-pouch or spleuchan to its owner, and joined in the prayer with decency and attention.
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And I wasna far wrang, for the stranger, takin 'out a pound frae his spleuchan, handed it ower to the monkey, and speered at him, in his droll norlan deealect, if he could change a note.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various
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'I hae forgotten my spleuchan -- Lachlan, gang doon to the Clachan, and bring me up a pennyworth of twist.'
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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I think it highly probable that we owe a further obligation to the worthy Supervisor's presentation of Rob Roy's _spleuchan_.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824
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So soon as the congregation were seated after prayers, and the clergyman had read his text, the gracious Duncan, after rummaging the leathern purse which hung in front of his petticoat, produced a short tobacco-pipe made of iron, and observed, almost aloud, ` ` I hae forgotten my spleuchan --- Lachlan, gang down to the clachan, and bring me up a pennyworth of twist. ''
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I kend a worthy minister, as gude a man, bating the deed they deposed him for, as ever ye heard claver in a pu'pit, that rapped to a hogshead of pigtail tobacco, just for as muckle as filled his spleuchan.
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When the discourse was finished, he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, replaced it in his sporran, returned the tobacco-pouch or spleuchan to its owner, and joined in the prayer with decency and attention.
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When I reach Lunnon, I intend to gang to our cousin Mrs. Glass, the tobacconist, at the sign o 'the Thistle, wha is so ceevil as to send you down your spleuchan-fu' anes a year; and as she must be well kend in Lunnon, I doubt not easily to find out where she lives. ''
reesetee commented on the word spleuchan
A tobacco pouch, usually made of leather, frequently used to hold money.
July 31, 2008
bilby commented on the word spleuchan
I only smoke fifty dollar bills.
August 1, 2008
reesetee commented on the word spleuchan
I go for hundreds.
August 1, 2008
bilby commented on the word spleuchan
reesetee always ups the ante and leaves me broke :-(
August 1, 2008
reesetee commented on the word spleuchan
Aw, here's a fifty, bilb. Go buy yourself some tobacco.
August 1, 2008
yarb commented on the word spleuchan
Citation on wittol.
June 5, 2009
qms commented on the word spleuchan
Old Angus was given to moochin'
But Scotsmen in thrift have few kin.
When he begged a smoke
They claimed to be broke
And not one would open his spleuchan.
October 9, 2016