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English
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)
- (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
- ^ 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