Poetry > Ballads in the Cumberland dialect

GLOSSABY.
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Sae, so
Sair, sore
Sairp, poor
Sal, shall
Sampleth, sampler
San, sand
Sang, song
Sark, shirt
Sarra, to serve
Sarvant, servant
Sattle, a settle or long
seat
Sault, salt
Sant, sad
Scalder’d, scalded
Sceape-greace, a hair¬
brained, graceless fel¬
low
Sceap’d, escaped
Schuil, School
Scons, cakes made of
barley meal
Scotty kye, Scotch cows
Scowp, scoop
Scraffle, struggle
Screap, to collect, to
hoard
Scribe of a pen, line by
way of letter
Scrudge, squeeze,
Scwores, scores
Seame, same
Seape, soap
Sec, such
Seek, sick
Seegh, sigh
Seeben, seven
Seed, saw
Seer, sure
See’t, contraction of see
Seet, sight [it
Seevy, rushy
Sel, self
Selt, sold
Sen or seyne, since
Setterday, Saturday
Seugh, ditch
Seyde, side
Seyne, since
Seypers, those who
drink to the last drop;
immoderate drinkers
Sha’ not, shall not
Shag, a slice
Sheap’d, shaped
Shearing, reaping
Sheer, shear, to reap
Sheks, shakes
Shem and a bizen, a
shame, and besides a
sin; the word bizen
being apparently a
corruption of “By a
sin,” i. e., besides a
Shettle, schedule
Sheynin, shining
Shoon, shoes
Shouder, shoulder
Shoul, shovel