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Dialect	Meaning	Source	Term	Cornish	Comment	Date
Sa	Stand. Stop
Saafguand. Seggard	An outer riding skirt
Saave.	Salve
Sam	To partially dry. "To bake in a sam oven"
Sadgy.	Soggy or marshy ground
Saffern Saffron	Used in cake-making
Sample	Supple. Soft
Sampson	A drink made of brandy, cider and sugar with a little water
Sampson with his hair on	Sampson made with a double quantity of brandy
Sam-swindled.	Not well-cooked. Or partly ready
Sappy	Silly. Not wise
Sar’cen	A heathen. A saracen
Sarch. Sarcher	Search. Searcher. An exciseman
Sartainly	Certainly
Sarve.	To serve. Work for
Saund-sleeper. Seven-sleeper	The Buanet Moth
Sawan	A cave at the bottom of a cliff
Sawdle. Saudel.	To cook slowly. To simmer. To spoil
Sawdled	Sodden. Imperfectly cooked
Saw	To sow. Till. Cultivate
Sea	Sea.
Sayst	Say. Did you say''
Scaald	Scald. In making Comish cream
Scadgan	A disreputable, disgusting person
Scal	A scamp
Scall,	A scale of ground
Scaly	Grumpy
Scam.	To bend out of shape, to turn over a shoe
Scaoow. Seow	The elder tree
Scarlet runners,	Kidney beans
Scat. Scat abroad	To break, smash, knock. To spread around
Scarf,	A joint. To join. (Scarf together)
Scamp	To do work badly. Shoddy. Inferior
Scaunce	Sense
Scavel-an-gow	The bench of lies. Rag, tag and bobtail
Scaverniek	A hare
Scaw	Elder
Scawsy-buds	Elder buds
Schemy	To scheme. To make plans
School	A shoal of fish
Sclum. Selummed	Scratch. Scratched
Scoad. Scud	To spill. Spread. Scatter
Scoggan	A mackerel head boiled
Selllum-cat	Spite. Spiteful
Scoans	The pavement
Scoot	To rush away. To hurry off
Scoland	Scholar
Scollops	Scrolls. Screeds. Melted down innards of pigs
Seoot-a-paw. Scuta paw	A flat-shallow-bottomed boat
Seopious	Copious. Plentiful
Scread	A scrap. A shred
Scouring geaard	Decomposed granite used for scouring
Scrabble.	To scramble. To scratch for
Scramming	Searchg around for what can be picked up
Scramming, also Cramming	Telling lies. Lying
Scranch	To crunch
Scratchy	Annoyed. Angry
Scraw.	to scratch
Scrawed	Scorched. Withered. Dried up
Screeeh.	To cry. Weep
Screech.	A quick fire of heath or furze
SCREECHER	Mistle Thrush	20	Fauna		Sennen	2010 (20)
Screed	A very small but. A very thin person. Also a building phrase
Screw	A shrew mouse
Scriddle.	Sit in front of the fire
Scriff.	To draw together with cold. To stoop over the fire
Scriff-scraff	The refuse or cast-off bits
Scrimp. Scrimpin'.	To pinch. To give meagre quantity
Scrinked.	Screwed up. Wrinkled. Grimace
Scritch	A crutch
Scroached. Scrolled. Scrowled	Scorched. Broiled
Scroff	Refuse. Small potatoes
Scroff.	The foam of the sea
Scoggan	A worthless person. A gallows bird
Scrooge.	To squeeze in. To push one's way
Scrovey	Mean
Scrow.	To scratch
Scrowl-pelchur	Pilchard cooked over an open fire
Scruff.	The nape of the neck
Scruff.	To take hold of. To pull about. To fight
Scrump	To hump the shoulders
Scrumping	Stealing fruit from orchards
Scubmaw	Splinters. Bits
Scud. Skud	To spill. To spread "skud dung"
Scrunching. Scranchin'	Crushing a hard substance between the teeth
Scuddy-ground	Rough, uneven ground
Scudmore.	Small pieces of floating wreckage. Driftwood
Scuffle. Scuffling..	Harving (an agricultural term)
Scur.	.To scatch
Scurry	Disappear. Run away.
Scute	Iron on the heel of a boot or shoe.
Sed-lup. Seed-lip	A farming utensil used for carrying seed when sowing by hand
Seame	A horse load
Seed	Said. Saw (To see)
Selve.	Self
Sem Semmee	Seem
Serg	To sift flour. A sieve
Seyme.	Melted fat. Grease. "Goose seyme"
Shaade	A shadow (out of the sun’s rays)
Shallal-band.	Clashing of tin pans to serenade newly-weds
Shab-rag	Worn out
Shally-g-naked	A flimsy article of dress
Shammed.	Ashamed Shammick.................. A low mean shuffing person. Also a cheat
Shanks	Spokes of a wheel
Shaip.	Sheep
Shimshanking	Mean. Shuffling
Shape	Disorder. Confusiion. Condition
Sharps.	Shafts (of a cart or wagon)
Shave your head and go east	Term of contempt, possible referring to the time when it was the custom to go on pilgrimages
Shavie..Shave Shay	Chaise. Donkey shay.Two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a donkey
Shale	scale
Shedrick	Delapidated. '`That gate was shedrick"
Sheel(s)	Shells
Shellards-worth	A shilling’s worth
Sherd(s)	Broken pottery
Sherming	Big.. Large.
Shuddle.	Should
Shern.	A cream dish. "Here’s a fern to measure your shern, please give a mossel of bread and cream" A May Day song when parties of children visited farmhouses, bring with them ferns to measure the dishes
Shul	Shall
Shut. Shette	Shoot (To fire a gun)
Shevver. Shivver	The bar of a gate, also a flat iron plate in ovens of Cornish slabs
Shig. Shug. Shigged	To cheat or trick in games or in play
Shimshamming. Shimshanking	Mean. Shuffling
Shine.	Uproar. Row. Fuss. Stir "Never seed such a shine in me life."
Shiner	Sweetheart (occasional)
Shoal. Shoaler	To sponge or hang on to others
Shoaling.	lmposing on good nature. Sponging
Shocks. Shocking	Com stacks (stooks). Making stook
Shoot. Shute. Chute	A water conduit. A stream of water
Shot.	A species of trout
Showl. Shoul.	A Comish long-handled shovel
Shrim. Shrimmy	A cold shiver. A chill. "Feeling all shrimmy"
Shuddlen	Should not
Shrump	To shrug
Shugger kiss	Bubbles rising from dissolved sugar
Shut. Shuttin'.	Shoot. Shooting
Sich.	Such
Sidder.	Consider
Sigger.	To ooze, seep or simmer
Silly as a waggon 'oss.	Stupid
Sim. Si,'t me. Simminly	Seems. Seems to me. Seemingly
Skalliock.	Fool
Skal.	Calling out (Abusive temm)
Skalling	Fooling around
Skavelli ng-gow	Riff-raff
Skaw	Elderberry tree
Skatereens Shivereens	Broken into small pieces
Skeat.	A heavy fall of rain
Skeater. Also Teacer.	Small tube elf water for squirting
Skeesing. Skeezin'	Frisking about
Skedgewith	The privet
Skeered Scared	Afraid
Skerd.	Abraided
Skeering	Fluttering about
Skellymidge	A jumping jack toy
Skethans	Strips. Tatters
Skever	A skewer
Skew. Skiff	A slight driving shower. Misty rain
Skibbat. Skivet.	A small compartment in a chest
Skilly	Skimmed milk
Skinked	Wrinkled
Skipe	A mean, sly, under-handed person
Skit or skeet	To squirt saliva through teeth
Skitter	To make ducks and drakes on water. To slide
Skitterv	Slippery
Skiver.	skewer
Skrim. Skrum	To shiver with cold
Skimp	To skimp a job. To do shoddy work
Shuffler. Scuffler	A cultivator (Agricultural machine)
Skuart. Skuit.	A legacy. A windfall
Skruge. Scourge.	To touch obliquely. A light touch
Skuldragin'	Hair-pulling
Skute. Scute	The iron on the heel of a boot or shoe
Sky-blue	Milk and water mixed
Slab	Cornish cooking range. Gravestone
Slaggy	Wet. Miry
Slar.	Roofing slate
Slaw-cripple.	The slow-worm
Slight	(Of persons) Feeble. Sick. Unwell
Slawterpooch	Ungainly, slovenly person
Sleuchin'	Slouching. Dragging the feet. Lazy
Slew	To turn on one side. To twist around
Slewed.	Drunk. Intoxicated
Sliddery. Slidding.	Slippery. "Sliddery quay"
Slide.	A sledge
Slights	In his slights. Partly dressed
Slinger	Jobber. Will take any job
Slips	Young pigs
Slish.	Slice
Slock. Slocked	Beguile. Entice. To lead astray
Slocum.	A slow heavy person. An idler
Slone(s)	Shoe(s)
Slooch. Slouch	Dragging one's feet. Slouching along
Sloot.	To scrape or drag one's feet
Slooge	Fine dust causal by working a drill
Slosh	To flush with water
Sloshy.	Wet and muddy
Sloots	Old shoes and slippers
Slotter	To spill about
Slottery	Damp. muddy water
Slummock.	A dirty, slatternly woman
Slump	An unskilled careless worker
Slow-six-legged-walkers	Lice
Smale	Small
Small people	The fairies
Smead. Snade, Snath	The pole handle of a scythe
Smeech.	A strong disagreeable smell (of buming)	17	General		M.C.	1984
Smicket	Woman's undergarment. Chemise, shift
Smeet. Sneet	To sneer. Snigger. Laugh. Gloat. Giggle
Smidgeon	A smudgeon of luck. Just a little quantity
Smilkin'. Smalkin'	A filthy person
Smill the eer	Smell the air
Smudder	A cloud of smoke or dust. To choke
Smulk	A dirty disagreeable person
Snidderwid	A nose
Snip. Snippet	A little bit
Snob	A nasal secretion
Snodderwig	A black beetle
Snatch. Snotch	A notch
Snoff-rag	Handkerchief
Snowl	To loudly crunch or chew
Soase. Soust	To wet. Drunk. Wet to the skin
Soce. Soas	Friend or friends. gossip, goodfellows
Sodger.	A red herring. also a soldier
Sod	A clot of earth
Soden. Sodenly	Sudden. Suddenly
Sog	Fitful sleep or unconsciousness of sick person
Solls	Seals
Solar	Securing an open mineshaft
Solid Sober.	Grave
Some.	Very. "Some proud"
Somefin	Something
Sond.	Sand
Sonny	Son
Soons	Charms written or spoken given by white witches
Sops	Bread and milk
Soule.	Soul
soun	Sound
Soundin'	Fainting
Sow-pig.	Woodlouse (Grammersow)
Spal. Spaal.	To fine for loss of time
Spalling. Spall	Cracking stones
Spalls	Fragments of stone or metal
Spalling-hammer	Small hammer for breaking stones
Span. Spanjar	A tether. A fetter
Span	A measure
Spanker	A fine specimen. Large
Sparbles.	Nails for boot/shoe soles
STAVE	Starling	20	Fauna		Sennen	2010 (20)
Stream	To rinse	17,	household			1984
Strub, Strubbing	To rob a bird's nest. Steal
St Tibb's Eve	An imaginary time. 'I'll do it St Tibb's Eve'
Stuan.	A blow
Stub	To dig up stumps or roots of trees
Studdle, also stiddle	A stall post for tying cattle
Studdy	Steady
Stug	Jar
Stggy	Thick-set. Short and stout
Sturridge..	Uproar, Confusion
Stuffle.	Stifle
Sturt. Start.	Progess. Gain
Sturch	Starch
Suant	Even. Smooth. To spread evenly
Suchy-meat	A pudding made of small entrails
Suddint. Suddintly	Sudden. Suddenly
Sue.	To go dry from milk
Sumpman	Men who work at sinking mineshafts
Sunbeam.	The gossamer
Sure 'nough	Certainly. Truly
Sur. Zur	Sir
Survey	An auction
Sushabble	Sociable
Sut	Soot
Swabstick	A mining implement for cleaning a hole
Swag	A stump
Swaise	To wave or swing the hands
Swarr or swailed	Scorched or crumpled
Swettard	Sweetheart
Swailing.	Burning croftland
Swap	The gadfly
Sweeled	Singed. 'A sweeled cat'
Swiff.	Swift
Swift	well/fit e.g. Not very swift = unwell, in decline.	69	Health		Troon	2010
Swinging.	Large. Heavy. Cumbersome
Swogger	To swagger. To boast. A scolding
Swoun(d)	Swoon
Swoundin'	Fainting
Sye or Zye.	Scythe