Dialect ‘S’ 6 of 7
Staff : stick
Stagger : attempt, ‘he staggered it anyhow’
Start : ‘you gave me a start’, scared me; commence, ‘start the game’
Starving cold : ‘shut the dure! I’m starving.’
Stew : quandary, ‘I’m in the devil’s own stew’
Stime ; blind
Stir ; crowd, ‘a great stir of people’; poke, ‘stir the fire’
Stock ; the side of the bed farthest from the wall
Stoor : commotion, dust, ‘you’re raising too much stoor’
Strain : sprain
Strange : shy, ‘he’s strange unless he knows you’
Strapper : large
Stride-legs : astride
Stroke : cover, ‘stroke it in with the harrow’
Strong :strong-farmer: well-to-do; ‘going strong’, doing well
String : to hang
Stroop : spout of kettle or teapot
Strunt : sulk, ‘just let him strunt’
Stune : intermittent pain
Stupe : bathe
Suck in : mislead, ‘He sucked me in the w’ainst, but I have he’s measure now!’
Suck : n. a toady, ‘pay her no mine, she’s on’y an aul suck!’