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suggan|ˈsʌgən, ˈsuːgən|
Also 8 suggin, 9 soo-, s(o)ugan, suggaun, -awn.
[a. Ir. súgán.]
a. Anglo-Irish. A straw rope; a saddle. Also attrib. in suggan chair.
1722Bp. Downes in Nicolson Epist. Corr. 556 Instead of saddles perhaps something not better than an Irish suggan. 1789J. White Earl Strongbow II. 89 Cadows, and brogues, and swords, and suggins. 1841S. C. Hale Ireland II. 401 A stout little pig had a sougan fixed to his leg to prepare him for the road. 1888Yeats Fairy & Folk Tales 133 She lulls them to rest in the low suggaun chair. 1922Joyce Ulysses 489 Bloom..leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun. 1957E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways xv. 207 When..the load is placed directly on the ass a simple ‘sugan’ is sometimes made—a ring of straw some fifteen inches in diameter bound with a fine straw rope. 1977C. Rocks in Winter's Tales 23 128 My da goes to his own sugan chair inside the hearth.
Comb.1861A. H. Clington Frank o' Donnell 117 Two suggaun-bottomed chairs.
b. N. Amer. (Usu. in form soogan, sugan |ˈsuːgən|.) A thick blanket or padded quilt suitable for camping out.
For evidence of earlier but limited currency of this sense in Scotland see S.N.D.
1907S. E. White Arizona Nights 72 Sitting cross-legged on his ‘so-gun’ in the middle of the floor. 1914Chamb. Jrnl. Oct. 697/2 Alvin had come into camp without a ‘sugan’ or blankets of his own. 1915Dialect Notes IV. 245 Soogan,..sheep herder's blanket. ‘When they move, they just roll up the soogan and are off.’ 1926Amer. Speech I. 653/1 [Hobo lingo.] Sugan, a bed comforter. 1955R. Hobson Nothing too Good for Cowboy vii. 66 [I] saw Jimmy John shove him back into the soogans. 1974D. Sears Lark in Clear Air ii. 32 No matter how quick I turned out of my soogans I would see him up prowling around. |