A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 20

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