This page gathers the 1,860 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Dialectal” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 14 of 19: from “settle” to “sneck lifter”.
- settle verb To silence, especially by force.
- shab noun Scabies.
- shabby adj Of weather: wet and dreary.
- shack verb To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
- shackle noun A person who is idle or lazy; an idler.
- shackly adj Loose-jointed, shambling.
- shadbird noun The American snipe; Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata).
- shake noun The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- shalk noun A man; fellow.
- shamesome adj Deserving of shame; shameful.
- shand adj Worthless.
- shaw noun A thicket; a small wood or grove.
- sheal noun A shell or pod.
- shed verb To part, separate or divide.
- shelve verb To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
- shilf noun Coarse shale or slate fragments.
- shill verb To shell.
- shindy noun A fancy or liking.
- shiver noun A thin slice; a shive.
- shood verb The husk of oats after it has been threshed.
- shool noun A shovel.
- shooty adj Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.
- shorling noun The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
- shout noun A flat-bottomed boat, a barge (for carrying cargo, etc), now especially a light boat used in duck-shooting.
- shroud verb To lop the branches from (a tree).
- shruff noun Light, dry wood, or material used for fuel.
- shrump verb To shrink, shrivel.
- shuck verb To shake; shiver.
- shuckish adj Causing one to shiver, cold
- shug verb To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
- shunt verb To turn aside or away; to divert.
- shut noun A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
- sicker adj Certain.
- side adv Widely; wide; far.
- sie verb To drop, as water; trickle.
- sig noun Urine.
- sile noun A column; pillar.
- single noun A handful of gleaned grain.
- sipe noun A drain.
- sitch noun A brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.
- sithe verb To sigh.
- sitten adj Seated.
- sixty-eleven adj Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.
- size noun An assize.
- skat noun Alternate spelling of scat: a brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
- skeel noun A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
- skein noun A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
- skiff verb To fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground (etc).
- skift noun Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).
- skill verb To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
- skimp adj Scanty.
- skip noun A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- skirling noun A small trout or salmon.
- skiver verb To skewer, impale.
- skrike noun The mistle thrush.
- slab noun A bird, the wryneck.
- slade noun A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
- slam noun The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
- slammerkin noun A slut; an untidy or slatternly woman.
- slang noun Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
- slank noun A depression, a low place in the ground, especially one at the side of a river, lake, or cove which is filled with water during freshet(s).
- slapjack noun A type of pancake, or flapjack.
- slart noun Leftover(s), especially of food.
- slat verb To split; to crack.
- slatty adj Dirty.
- sleck verb To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
- sleech verb To dip a vessel into water to fill it; to scoop up water, as with a bucket.
- slicken adj Sleek; smooth.
- slicking noun A whipping with a hickory switch.
- slidder verb To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.
- slider noun A red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rubriventris, syn. Pseudemys rugosa).
- slike verb To rend asunder; cleave.
- slink noun A thievish fellow; a sneak.
- slitch noun Fine mud; silt; slake.
- slite verb To slit; tear or rip up.
- slive verb To cut; split; separate.
- slocken verb To put out, extinguish (a fire).
- slot verb To shut with violence; to slam.
- slotch noun An idle, slouching fellow; a slovenly, slipshod person.
- slump noun A boggy place.
- slumpy adj Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.
- slunk noun A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.)
- smeddum noun Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve.
- smeeth verb To smooth.
- smell-smock noun A plant, the cuckooflower or lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis).
- smit verb To infect.
- smittle adj Infectious.
- smoot noun A small opening built into a dry-stone wall, fence, or hedge to allow sheep (and hares) to pass through; a thirl.
- smur noun Drizzle, light rain, fine drizzle that hangs in the air and does not actually precipitate.
- snabble verb To plunder.
- snag verb To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- snagger noun A turnip.
- snaggy adj Bad-tempered; crotchety.
- snape verb To check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.).
- snaste noun The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle; the snuff.
- sneaker noun A vessel of drink.
- sneakery adj Sneaky.
- sneap verb To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).
- sneb verb To check; to reprimand.
- sneck lifter noun One who goes from door to door, first footing, on New Year's Eve.