Dialect ‘S’ 5 of 7
Snig : cut or slash; remove burning end of cigarette with the intention of re-lighting it later
Snigger : laugh
Soople : active
Sore : ‘a sore heart’, sad
‘a sore day’, unpleasant
‘he made a sore hand of the job’, spoiled it
‘sore-wrought’, hard-worked
Sort : tidy, repair
Sother : blow, ‘a sother on the lug’
Sound : to spread or publish
Souple : part of a flail
Sowl : soul
Sowans : food
Spakeing : putting a word in for; courting, ‘I see ye like her. I’ll be spakeing for ye’, ‘they’ve been spakeing now for some time’
Spang : a sudden movement
Spark : to splash, also noun, ‘a bright spark’, an amusing person
Speel : climb
Spell : a while, ‘we helped them for a spell’
Splagh : big feet: awkward walker, ‘he just splaghs along’
Spit : shower of rain
the image of, ‘he’s the spit of himself’, he’s like his father
Spleen : spite, ‘don’t vent your spleen on me’
Spraghle : to walk badly, sprawl
Spuds : potatoes
Spunk : courage
Stab : stake, ‘put a stab or two down in the gap’