Poetry > Ballads in the Cumberland dialect

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GLOSSARY.
Shot, reckoning; freed
from
Shuffle, to scrape with
the feet; to evade
Shuik, shook
Shwort, short
Shwort - keakes, rich
fruit cakes, which
peasants present to
their sweethearts at
fairs
Sin’, since
Sin’seyne, since that
time
Siplin, a sapling
Sizelled, walked
Skirl, to shriek, to cry
with a shrill voice
Skirl’d, screamed
Slaes, sloes
Slap, to beat
Slape, slippery
Sleate, slate
Slee, sly
Slink, slinge
Smaw, small
Smiddy, smithy
Smudder, smother
Smuik, smoke
Smutty, obscene
Snaps, small round gin¬
gerbread cakes
Snaw, snow
Sneck, latch or catch of
a gate or door
Sneype, a snipe
Shift’rin, sniffling
Snippy, (from snip, to
cut with scissors,) a
byname for a tailor
Snob, a cobbler
Snworin, snoring
Sonsy, lucky, generous
Sour milk, butter-milk
Souse, to plunge or im-
Sowdgers, soldiers
Spak, spoke
Speyce, spice
Splet, split
Spot, a place of service
Spunky, sparkling
Spuin, spoon
Spwort, sport
Stan, stand
Steek, to shut
Stegshe, Stagshaw fair
Steyfe, steam, dust
Steyle, stile
Steyme, alight
Stown, stolen
Strack, struck
Strappin, tall
Strea, straw
Streenin, straining
Streyt, straight
Stuil, stool
Stule, stole
Stibble, stubble
Stoury, dusty