Sc. [? Alteration of the earlier PUNG sb.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. Ibid. (1728), General Mistake, 167. [He] rarely has a shilling in his spung.
1836. M. Macintosh, Cottager’s Daughter, 195. I to death hae some withstood To mak my spung and coffers guid.
1892. J. Lumsden, Sheep-head & Trotters, 14. De Quincey … took an enormous gold watch from his ‘spung’ and handed it toward me.
