sagan
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sagan (plural sagans)
- Alternative letter-case form of Sagan
- 1984 September 27, Jerry Boyajian, “re: Moriarty's long-awaited reviews”, in net.comics[1] (Usenet):
- Part of it was that I just couldn't deal with a piece of primal matter floating around for sagans of years, eroding away until it became a nice, shiny, sharp-as-William-F.-Buckley's-tongue sword, with the old familiar "S" symbol coincidentally engraved on its hilt.
- 1998 January, Jon Luini, Allen Whitman, “Finding Your Geek”, in EQ, page 132:
- There are sagans of other planets crying out for this knowledge.
- 2001 October 24, Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster, “Re: Randomly write data to a file”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc[2] (Usenet):
- The Jet and xBase database engines have been pounded on by who knows how many developers and end-users for years, which amounts to sagans and sagans of hours of real-world testing!
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sagan
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Etymology edit
Perhaps from Russian сагáн (sagán) or Ukrainian сагáн (sahán), from Turkish sagan, from Arabic.
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sagan m inan
- (dated) large copper or iron vessel used to boil water or food
- (colloquial, humorous) head
- (Kraków) kettle
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Declension of sagan
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