soogan
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Scots suggan (“light saddle; bedroll”), 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).[1] Doublet of sugan (“chair”).
Noun
editsoogan (plural soogans)
- (US) A bedroll.
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 30:
- Rawlins was trying to get his soogan tied on behind the saddle.