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Jennings, James

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

/ _s._ A tooth.
Snaggle'tooth. _s._ A tooth growing irregularly.
Snarl. _s._ A tangle; a quarrel. There is also the verb _to
snarl_, to entangle.
SneA¤d. _s._ The crooked handle of a mowing scythe.
Snip'py. _adj._ Mean, parsimonious.
Snock. _s._ A knock; a smart blow.
Snowl. _s._ The head.
Soce. _s. pl._ Vocative case. Friends! Companions! Most
probably derived from the Latin _socius_.
To Soss. _v. a._ To throw a liquid from one vessel to
another.
Sour-dock. _s._ Sorrel: _rumex aceiosa_.
Souse. _s. pl. Sousen._ The ears. _Pigs sousen_, pig's
ears.
Spar. _s._ The pointed sticks, doubled and twisted in the
middle, and used for fixing the thatch of a roof, are called
_spars:_ they are commonly made of split willow rods.
Spar'kid. _adj._ Speckled.
Spar'ticles. _s. pl._ Spectacles: glasses to assist the
sight.
Spawl. _s._ A chip from a stone.
Spill. _s._ A stalk; particularly that which is long and
straight. _To run to spill_, is to run to seed; it sometimes
also means to be unproductive.


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