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Jennings, James

"The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire"


To Slitter. _v.n._ To slide.
To Slock. _v. a._ To obtain clandestinely.
To Slock'ster. _v. a._ To waste.
Slom'aking. _adj._ Untidy; slatternly (applied to females.)
This word is, probably, derived from _slow_ and
_mawkin_.
Slop'per. _adj._ Loose; not fixed: applied only to solid
bodies.
To Slot'ter. _v. n._ To dirty; to spill.
Slot'tering. _adj._ Filthy, wasteful.
Slot'ter. _s._ Any liquid thrown about, or accidentally
spilled on a table, or the ground.
Slug'gardy-guise. _s._ The habit of a sluggard.
_Sluggardy-guise;
Loth to go to bed,
And loth to rise._
WYAT says--"Arise, for shame; do away your _sluggardy._"

Sluck'-a-bed, \ Sluck'-a-trice,
} _s._ A slug-a-bed; a sluggard.
Slock'-a-trice. /
Smash. _s._ A blow or fall, by which any thing is broken.
_All to smash_, all to pieces.
Smeech. _s._ Fine dust raised in the air.
To Smoor. _v. a._ To smooth; to pat.
Snags. _s._ Small sloes: _prunus spinosa_.
Snag, \ Snagn.


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