Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A leather or fur pouch worn at the front of the kilt in the traditional dress of men of the Scottish Highlands.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Highland costume, the purse hanging down from the belt in front of the kilt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
pouch , usually made of either fur or plain or fur-trimmedleather , which is worn, suspended from abelt orchain , on the front of akilt and used to hold various items normally carried in pants pockets.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The sporran is a kind of belt purse, Shari explained.
The Lancaster Men Janet Dailey 1984
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The sporran is a kind of belt purse, Shari explained.
The Lancaster Men Janet Dailey 1984
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The sporran is a kind of belt purse, Shari explained.
The Lancaster Men Janet Dailey 1984
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The sporran is a kind of belt purse, Shari explained.
The Lancaster Men Janet Dailey 1984
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That "sporran" was really a kind of movable curtain or screen; and beneath it, Bowman was quite sure, would be the mouth, handily placed at the entrance to the stomach.
Tin 2010
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Too bad it replaced the already existing "sporran", which describes exactly the same kind of thing.
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Clothing was generally confined to a kind of sporran, elaborately patterned with symbols, to leave glands and mahogany fur available for signals.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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A stark-naked savage this, and devoid of all adornment excepting a waist-belt of plaited grass and a "sporran" of similar material.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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We are going to have to dig way down deep in the sporran to replace it.
Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish John 2009
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When Baker met the king of Buganda, he appeared in full Highland dress: kilt, sporran and Glengarry bonnet all complete in the heart of Africa.
To the Source Judith Flanders 2011
sonofgroucho commented on the word sporran
How could a true Scotsman not include this?
January 18, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word sporran
How could a true Scotsman not include this?
January 18, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word sporran
You can build one here.
December 8, 2008
reesetee commented on the word sporran
Yikes. I just made a pink sporran. =:-O
December 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word sporran
I won't tell you what happened when I was corralled into the Skunk Full Mask Sporran option.
*sulks*
December 9, 2008
sionnach commented on the word sporran
Sam had already profited handsomely from the public's esurient craving for fresh Tickle-Me-Elmo paraphernalia, when he figured out a clever way of making "Elmo sampans" by deft evagination of old sporrans, and his market research team was already investigating potential demand for a series of "Elmo's Everest adventures" manufactured, using the best faux-samizdat techniques, to look like actual sherpa journals.
(The challenge was to use the words esurient, evagination, sporran, samizdat, and sampan in a single sentence).
December 9, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sporran
Now, a full-mask Elmo sporran, I'd think about wearing that.
December 9, 2008
reesetee commented on the word sporran
You would? Down...you know...where sporrans are worn?
December 9, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sporran
Hell yeah. I wouldn't have to do anything to make people laugh--just walk down the street. A visible, effortless comedy act.
Not to mention the bonus of having Elmo decapitated.
December 9, 2008
reesetee commented on the word sporran
Well, there's that.
December 9, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word sporran
Wasn't it referred to on the Johnny Carson Show as "that hairy thing Scotsmen have below their kilt"?
December 25, 2008