soogan

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From 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

soogan (plural soogans)

  1. (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.

References
  1. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 558
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