spleuchanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Goidelic/Scottish Gaelic spliuchan.

名詞

spleuchan (複数形 spleuchans)

1. (Scotland) A pouch, as for tobacco or money.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:

     But I was saying, there’s some siller in the spleuchan that’s like the Captain’s ain, for we’ve aye counted it such, baith Ailie and me.

   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 1, p.34.

     'I wadna hae been in his skin for the best har'st fee that ever was paid into a Lowlander's purse or a Highlander's spleuchan.'