▪ I. spung, n. Sc.
(spʌŋ)
[? Alteration of the earlier pung n.1]
A purse; a fob.
| 1728 Ramsay Last Sp. Miser xiv, They bid us draw Our siller spungs, For this and that, to mak' them braw. 1728 ― General Mistake 167 [He] rarely has a shilling in his spung. 1836 M. Mackintosh Cottager's Daughter 195, I to death hae some withstood To mak my spung and coffers guid. 1892 J. Lumsden Sheephead & Trotters 14 [He] took an enormous gold watch from his ‘spung’ and handed it toward me. |
▪ II. spung, v. Sc.
[? f. prec.]
trans. To rob.
| 1719 Ramsay Ep. to Hamilton ii. xii, If that the gypsies dinna spung us. 1788 R. Galloway Poems 94 If you be not very sly, They'll spung you of your watch. |