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  • noun Scotland a small sack or wallet
  • noun Scotland a small, especially rascally or stupid, person

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Examples

  • "I'll l-- b-- double you," says Sandy, "if ye gie me ony o 'your chat, ye half-cled horn-goloch' at ye are"; and he took the sacket a kleip i 'the side o' the heid wi 'his open luif that tummeled him ower the tap

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "If he ever comes back, the sacket (rascal)," T'nowhead said to Jess,

    A Window in Thrums 1898

  • "If he ever comes back, the sacket" (rascal), T'nowhead said to Jess,

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

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