A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire - LightNovelsOnl.com
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Slooen _adj._ of sloe, ex. A slooen tree
Slop _adj._ loose (Dutch _slap_)
Slope _v.n._ to decay, rot, as pears and potatoes
Srnitch, Smit, Smeech _s._ s.m.u.t, or fine dust
Snag _s._ a tooth standing alone; a small sloe
Snag-blowth _s._ the blossom of the black-thorn
Snake-leaves _s._ ferns
Snap-jack _s._ st.i.tch-wort (stellaria holostea)
Snare _s._ the gut or string stretched tightly across the lower head of a drum
Snell, or Snull _s._ a short thick stick about 4 inches long, called a "cat," used in the game called cat and dog
Sneyd _s._ the crooked handle of a scythe
Snicker, Sn.i.g.g.e.r _v._ to laugh in an insulting way
Snoach _v._ to snuffle, to speak through the nose
Snoffer _s._ a sweetheart (Dutch _snoffen_, to sigh)
Snool _v._ to smear anything by rubbing the nose and mouth over it (Dutch _snavel_, a snout)
Snop _s._ a sharp blow
Soce, Zuez _s. pl. voc._ friends (Query _socii_)
Sog, or Sug _s._ a mora.s.s. Soggy _adj._ boggy; also as a verb, to be sugged-out by the wet
Sowle _v._ to handle rudely, to hale or pull
"He'll go, he says, and sowle the porter of Rome gates by the ears"
(Shaks. Coriol. iv. 5)
Spane _s._ the p.r.o.ng of a fork
Sparcled, Sparked, Spicotty _adj._ speckled
Spar-gad _s._ sticks split to be used for thatching
Sparrables, Spurbles _s._ shoemaker's nails, ex. Sparrable boots
Spars _s._ twisted hazel or willow for thatching
Spawl _v._ to scale away _s._ a scale broken off from the surface of a stone
Speard _s._ spade
Spine _s._ the sward or surface of the ground; the fat on the surface of a joint of meat
Spinnick _s._ Spinnicking _adj._ a person every way diminutive
Spittle _v._ to dig lightly between crops
Splat _s._ a row of pins as sold in paper
Sprack, Spree, Spry _adj._ nimble, alert, active
Sprackles _s. pl._ spectacles
Sprank _v._ to sprinkle with water. Spranker, Sprenker _s._ a watering-pot
Spreathed _adj._ said of skin harsh and dry with cold, but not chapped
Spried, Spreed _adj._ chapped with cold
Spounce _v._ to spatter with water
Spuddle _v._ to be uselessly or triflingly busy
Spur _v._ to spread abroad or scatter, as manure over a field (Lat.
_spargere_)
Squail _v._ to throw a short stick at anything. Squailer _s._ the stick used in squirrel hunting
Squails _s._ nine-pins
Squap _v._ to sit down without any employment
Squatch _s._ a c.h.i.n.k or narrow clift
Squelstring _adj._ sultry
Squinny _v._ to squint "Dost thou squinny at me?" (Shak. King Lear)
Squittee _v._ to squirt
Squoace, or Squss _v._ to truck or exchange
Staddle _s._ foundation of a rick of hay or corn, a mark left by a hayc.o.c.k, or anything allowed to remain too long in one place
Stag _s._ a castrated bull
