sugan

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UK/ˈsuː.ɡən/UK/ˈsʌɡən/

noun

A straw rope.

OriginIrish súgán ← Proto-Celtic *souggo ← Proto-Indo-European *sew- →
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Meanings

nounsugan (plural sugans)

plural sugans · alternative soogan · alternative sugaun · alternative sugawn · alternative suggan

  1. IrelandA straw rope.

    Lead him home with a sugan the way you’d lead a bleating goat.

    1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
  2. CanadaUSA blanket or bedroll used for camping out.

    Rawlins was trying to get his soogan tied on behind the saddle.

    1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 30

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sew-“to bend, to cut, to drive”
  2. Proto-Celtic*souggo
  3. Irishsúgán“rope”
  4. Englishsugan

Borrowed 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). Doublet of soogan.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

angusGansusungaSagunGanussangugusansaung
Cite this entry
APA

sugan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sugan

MLA

“sugan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sugan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sugan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sugan.

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