Dialect ‘S’ 1 of 7
Sack dismiss, also bags of all sizes
Saggans tall reeds or plants growing in water
Sally willow, a sally rod once used for corporal punishment
Salted ‘well salted’, paid above the going rate
Say ‘he has no say in his house’
agree, ‘Say with her! It saves trouble.’
Scad little, short
Scaldsome troublesome
Scollops rods sharpened at both ends, then doubled and driven into the scraws in thatching
Scope scoup, hollow out or excavate
Score scratch, ‘score her eyes out’
Scrab scratch, ‘Mary scrabbed me, ma’
Scranch crunch or crush
Scrant ‘bad scrant till ye for yer cheek!’, begone! Ill luck to you
Scrapers feet, ‘wipe yer scrapers before you come in’
Scraws sods
Screed a story
Scringe creak, borrow
Scroggy waste land of bracken or briars
Scrub mean: also occasionally affectionate term, ‘a taking wee scrub that’, a fine child
Scruff back of the neck
Scrunt useless, small
Scuffed shabby
Scum to skim, ‘scum the milk’
Scunder dislike
Scundered devastated, ‘I was scundered when it happened’