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Saar, seawr – sour ‘Saar an’ sweet; dark an’ leet’

Sabden – a place in North Lancashire (SB)

Sacked – discharged

Sackliss – innocent, unconscions (SB)

Sacklus – Mournful ‘They’re as sacklus as hens are i’ t’ mowt.’ (‘Some Foak’, Joseph Baron)

Sad – thick, stiff, as "sad porritch," thick porridge (SB)

Said (be said) – be told ‘If nobbut for once th’d ha’ sense to be said’

Saig – a hand-saw (SB)

Saigh – saw: "I saigh him doo it." (SB)

Salit – salad ‘Sali for th’ baggin time’

Sam – gather (or put) together ‘Aw sammed it op’

Sanner – sooner

Saplin – a young oak (SB)

Sark – a shirt; Sarkliss – shirtless (SB)

Sarmun – sermon (SB)

Sartin –certain

Sartinly – certainly (SB)

Sauced – scolded ‘Heaw th’ wife sauced him!’

Sate – to satiate (SB)

Sated, satiated (SB)

Satein, satiating (SB)

Sattlt – settled (SB)

Sattle – to settle (SB)

Sattln – they settle (SB)

Sattltn – they settled. (SB)

Saup, sope – sup, a drink ‘Get this sope o’ cinder tay, While it’s warm’

Saut, sawt – salt ‘An’ heaw Lot’s woife wur turn’d to a pillar o’ sawt’

Savur – savour, taste (SB)

Savurt – tasted (SB)

Savurn – they taste (SB)

Savurtn – they tasted (SB)

Sawfly or Sawfli – softly, gently: "He wawkt very sawfli." (SB)

Sawgh – a willow or withen (SB)

Sawp – a sup, a small quantity (SB)

Sawt – salt (SB)

Sawted – salted, caught with salt

Sawve – salve (SB)

Saxon-nook – a farm at Middleton (SB)

Say – sea ‘Say-breeze is chep enough that you’ll confess’

Saycret – secret ‘An’ th’ tailor then an’ theer confess’d,

            An’ geet th’ dread saycret off his chest’

Sblid – s'blood, an exclamation (SB)

Scaith – skaith – harm, danger ‘Tent moi owd mon fro’ skaith

Scallions – small, tender onions

Scamper – to run with speed; Scampert, ran hastily (SB)

Scaplins – chippings of stone (SB)

Scap-gallows – scape gallows: one who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes (SB)

Scapp – escape (SB)

Scap – quarrel verbally, and otherwise

Scarr a scaur – a steep, bare, and rocky place on the side of a hill (SB)

Scarce – disappear ‘Make thisel’ scarce’

Scat an’ scraped – saved ‘Theau’s scrat an’ scraped, an’ toil’d for years’

Scawd – to scald (SB)

Scawd or Scode-yed – a scabbed head (SB)

Scawp – the head (SB)

Scitter – a slight fall of snow or rain

Scoance – a lantern (SB)

Scog – to dispute (SB)

Scoggin – disputing (SB)

Scope – a scoop, a vessel to lade with (SB)

Scopperil – a flat button mold of bone, through which a peg is driven, so that it may twirl round like a tee-totem; an insignificant person is also termed a scopperil: Theaw little scopperill." (SB)

Scotch – to set fast (SB)

Scotcht – set fast, stopped (SB)

Scrannil – a thin person, underfed; a lean, skinny person (SB)

Scrat – to scratch, also is scratched (SB)

Scrattin – scratching (SB)

Scratn – they scratch (SB)

Seratut – they scratched (SB)

Scrawm – to scramble awkwardly (SB)

Scrawmin – scrambling (SB)

Scrawmt – scrambled (SB)

Scrawmin – they scramble (SB)

Scrawmntn – they scrambled (SB)

Screeve or Screive – to froth at the mouth, as in a fit, or as corpses do after death: (SB)

Screeven – frothing; Screevt frothed (SB)

Scroof – dry scales of the skin (SB)

Scrog – a fragment, a scrag (SB)

Scrumpled – ruffled, creased

Scuff – scruff, back of the neck

Scrunt – brush wood, undergrowth of timber, also a steented insignificant person, "Awd neer goo throo th' wood, un tak op weeth' scrunt," means "I'd never walk through the world of mankind, and take up with one of the most inferior after all."

Scutt – tail of a hare: a short coat or other garment, "Its very scutt." (SB)

Scutter – to haste, splutter (SB)

Scutch or Skutch – to whip; to move quickly, "He skutcht forrud." (SB)

Seanee – a small fresh water eel, a conger eel (SB)

Seaw – to sew; Seawin – sewing; Seawd – sewed (SB)

Seawn – sewn (SB)

Seawdn – they sewd (SB)

Seawer – sour: Sawyr, taste, odour, cymraeg (SB)

Seawkin – sucking

Seawnd – sound ‘Aw think there’s a bit o’ seawnd sleep comin’ on’

Seawk— suck

Seawkin – sucking (SB)

Seawkn – they suck (SB)

Seawknt – they sucked (SB)

Seawkt – sucked (SB)

Seawl – Buttermilk or whey, taken with oaten cake, chiefly for bagging or lunch.  "Pot bos are, scant and dear are seawl, an cheese." Tim Bobbin. (SB)

Seawl – soul (SB)

Seawl-case – the human body (SB)

Seawnd – sound, healthy: also a noise (SB)

Seawndin – sounding (SB)

Seawndly – soundly, heartily (SB)

Seawndn – they sound (SB)

Seawndnt – they sounded.

Seawp – sup (SB)

Seawpin – supping (SB)

Seawpt – supped (SB)

Seawpnt – they supped. (SB)

Seawse – blow, also drenched ‘fond o’ givin’ th’ bairns a seawse’

Seawse – to hit, to beat; "Awll githe a good seawsin." (SB)

Seawter-skull – a numb-skull; a stupid fellow, great seawter-skull." (SB)

Seawteryed, a stupid fellow (SB)

Seawth – south (SB)

Seck – a sack (SB)

Secont – second (SB)

Sed –said (SB)

Sedto – saidest thou? (SB)

Sedtono – saidest thou not? (SB)

Sedtoso? saidest thou so?

Sedtonoso – saidest thou not so. (SB)

See, seed – saw ‘he seed’, ‘I never see sich a whelp sin I wur born’

            ‘Mi e’en are woss for seet’

Seech – seek, look for ‘O’ th’ folk i’ th’ fowt are seechin’ him,

            We’st happen find him yet’

Seechin – seeking (SB)

Seechst – sought (SB)

Seechnt – they sought (SB)

Seechn – we seek (SB)

Seed – saw (SB)

Seedn – they saw (SB)

Seegh – a sieve (SB)

Seely – silly (SB)

Seesto – seest thou, dost thou see

Seet – sight; also see it: also to set off, to start. "He seet away." Also sat; "He seet him deawn," Seetn, they sat. (SB)

See’t – see it

Seet – sight ‘ee seet’,

‘There’s nowt con beat that steamy seet,

            That good owd ‘tato-pie’

Seet – set ‘Aw seet off for mi wark’

Seeth’ – see the ‘com an’ see th’ gam (game)’

Segg – a bullock; also a horny skin on foot or hand (SB)

Seign – seven; seignpence – sevenpence (SB)

Seln – self (SB)

Sen – they say; "They see he didno." (SB)

Senno – say you. (SB)

Sennigroon – sinews stiffened, immoveable (SB)

Sennis – sinews (SB)

Sennit – seven night, a week (SB)

Sennygroon – sinew grown stiff for want of use

Ses or Sez – says: "He ses." "They sedn;" Sesto? Sayest thou? (SB)

Sestoso? – savest thou so? (SB)

Sestonoso? – sayest thou not so. (SB)

Sen, seyn – say ‘Folk seyn awm to’ pratty to dee an owd maid’

Sense – excuse, evasion (SB)

Serran – Sarah Ann

Set – sat ‘It’s snug an’ cozy set bi t’ fire’

Set to – commence

Set up – highly pleased ‘Some an’ set up abeawt it’

Sett – a party, a gang; "Th' Boelee sett." "Th' Birkle sett." (SB)

Setter – an issue on cattle (SB)

Sewr – sure; "Aye for sewr is it," for a certainty. (SB)

Shade – shed (weaving shed)

Shadd or Shedd – over did, excelled; "That shadd o;" that exceeded all. (SB)

Shaffle – to shuffle, to evade; "Whot arto shaflin abeawt?" (SB)

Shaffledurt – a shuffling person (SB)

Shafflin – pretending to work or do something, and also idling

Shallha – shall have (SB)

Shalli – shall I (SB)

Shalto – shalt thou (SB)

Shaltono – shalt thou not: Sholl is frequently used (SB)

Shammock – one who is awkward, shamefaced (SB)

Shammockin – bungling, confused, abashed (SB)

Shammocks – feet ‘Shift thi greyt shammocks’

Sha – shall; ‘yo’ shan’ (SB)

Shanno – shall not (SB)

Shannodoo – shall not do. (SB)

Shankle – to shuffle about, to dangle after. "Whot arto shanklin after hur for? "Theaw needsno ston shanklin theer." (SB)

Shanks – legs ‘Poo up to th’ side o’ th’ hob, an’ rest thi weary shanks’

Shank’s pony – walking

Shanno’ – shall not

Shantledurt – a shaffling fellow (SB)

Shap – shape, do something ‘Shap thisel’’; Shappin, shaping; Shapt, shaped. (SB)

Shap-ashes – corrupted from sheep-washes, at Oldham (SB)

Shapn – they shape (SB)

Shapnt – they did shape; also to offer, or to set about doing, a thing, as "Come, arto not for shappin?" art thou not for setting about thy work? or thy journey? (SB)

Sharn – dung (SB)

Sharnyvoor – corrupted from Sharnyford, near Bacup. (SB)

Shawme – shame (SB)

Shawmt – shamed (SB)

Shawmin – shaming (SB)

Shawmtn – they shamed (SB)

Shay – Shaw, in Crompton (SB)

Shay-side – a place near Shaw (SB)

Shayforth – a place near Rochdale (SB)

Sheawt – to shout (SB)

Sheawtin’ – shouting ‘It’s o’ o’er nobbut sheawtin’

Sheawtnt – they shouted.

Shedd – spilled (SB)

Shedds – spills (SB)

Sheddn – they spill (SB)

Sheddnt, – they spilled. (SB)

Shedd – excelled, ‘it shedds (it was beyond all)’; surpassed, exceeded; "That shedds o." (SB)

Sheddum – exceeding: "That's sheddum.” (SB)

Sheed – to spill (SB)

Sheedin – spilling (SB)

Sheedn – they spill (SB)

Sheednt – they spilled. (SB)

Sheedin’ – spilling, also a brow, ‘sheedin’ to one side’, ‘it sheeds that way’

Sheer – clear, entire, through (SB)

Shepsters – starlings

Shepsterin – waiting on a lying-in woman

Sherrs – shears; also he shears, he reaps (SB)

Sherrin – shearing (SB)

Sherrd – shorn (SB)

Sherdn – they sheared (SB)

Sherrers – shearers (SB)

Sherrup, shurrup – shut up, be silent

Shilder or Shilther – shoulder (SB)

Shilders – shoulders (SB)

Shilderin – shouldering (SB)

Shildertn – they shoulder (SB)

Shippn – a cow-house (SB)

Shire or Shoyer – fully, entirely, to the extent (SB)

Shoave, Sheave or Shoove – to push against, or thrust aside (SB)

Shirl – shrill (SB)

Shitter – to purge (SB)

Shive – a slice of bread

Shode – showed

Shog – to jog, to go uneasily (SB)

Shollno – shall not (SB)

Sholtno – shalt not (SB)

Shollst – shallst (SB)

Shollto? – shalt thou? (SB)

Sholltono – shalt thou not (SB)

Shon or Shan – shall (SB)

Shonno – shall not (SB)

Shoo – a shovel: also a shoe (SB)

Shool – to shovel (SB)

Shoods, Shuyds or Shudes – the husks of grain (SB)

Shoolin or Shooin – shovelling (SB)

Shoolt – shovelled (SB)

Shooltn – they shovelled (SB)

Shoon – shoes ‘Aw’ve getten new shoon, an’ a rare nice cockade’ (SB)

Shuyn – the same, chiefly near Todmorden (SB)

Shoother or Shilder – shoulder (SB)

Shootherin – shouldering (SB)

Shoothertn – they shouldered (SB)

Shop – position, employment

Shough – a shoe to wear (SB)

Shover, Sholver – a place near Oldham; Shover-moor – at the same place (SB)

Shoyne – to shine (SB)

Shoyney – shiney (SB)

Shoynin – shining (SB)

Shoyner – shiner (SB)

Shoynt – shone (SB)

Shoyntn – they shone (SB)

Shoyve or Shive – a slice: "Cut a good shoyve."

Shover-oer – over, entirely, over bounds, over the whole shire (SB)

Shreawd – a shroud (SB)

Shreawlt – withered, shrivelled (SB)

Shu – a noise to frighten poultry or birds: "Shu sed one; Shu sed anothe."—T. Bobbin (SB)

Shuin – frightning, driving (SB)

Shud – should (SB)

Shudto? – shouldest thou? (SB)

Shudtono or Shudsttono, shouldest thou not? (SB)

Shunt – to give way: to move from a place (SB)

Shuntn – they give way (SB)

Shuntnt – they gave way (SB)

Shurt – a shirt; Sark – the same (SB)

Shus heaw, shuz heaw – choose how, anyhow

Shut – be quiet ‘Shut up’, Shut thi’ face’

Shut – rid of ‘Get shut’ - part with ‘Good shuttance’

Shute – suit ‘An’ a shute o’ clooas o made o’ tin’

Shuttance – left, gone away ‘Good shuttance’

Shutter – to slip, to slide down (SB)

Shuttered – a fall ‘A wall’s shuttered deawn’

Shutterin – slipping (SB)

Shuttern – they slip (SB)

Shuttert – slipped (SB)

Shuttertn – they slipped; rm. Gutter (SB)

Shuz or Chez – whichever. "Shuz which theaw taks." (SB)

Si, sin – see, seen ‘It’s sin some changes in its time’

Sib – relating to, akin (obs.) (SB)

Sich – sitch – such ‘I never seed sich a seet sin I’re born’

Side – put aside, clear ‘I yeard them murmur all ther prayers

            Then sided all ther things away’

Side – deep, long: a curtain or garment is said beside, when it hangs: also the side of a thing, or the side of a party: "Whot side is he on?" (SB)

Sidle – to hang aside: to be ready for either side, or both sides: to wait for events: also to follow a lass bashfully and and secretly: "he's sidlin after hur." (SB)

Sidled – to go away ‘He’s sidled off wom’

Sidelin – shuffling, hesitating (SB)

Sidlt – shuffled, waited. Lord Stanley sidlt, when he stood aside with his forces previous to the battle of Bosworth. That was a remarkable specimen of sidelin. (SB)

Sigh – the sound of heavy rain, with wind: "Heaw it sighs an rains;" also to pour liquor through a sieve. (SB)

Sike, Syke – a gutter (SB)

Sillabeawk – a rich cake used at weddings (SB)

Sillabub – a rich posset, or spiced ale, produced at weddings by the bride's friends before going to church (SB)

Simmeh – see me (SB)

Simlin, Symlin, Cymblin or Simblin – a rich cake of a peculiar shape, chiefly produced at Bury, in South Lancashire, and commonly presented to guests on Midlent Sunday, called from that circumstance Symblin Sunday; Anglo-Saxon, Simble, a feast. (SB)

Sin, seen; rm. in: "Aw sin him."

Sin, sinn – since ‘Aw’ve never felt gradely sin’; "It's a week sinn."

Singlet – a waistcoat. The coat was a doublet.; a man's vest. (SB)

Sink – a drain, a gutter (SB)

Sink-durt – the mud of a sink (SB)

Sis – something tasty to eat

Sitch – such

Sitchun – such an one (SB)

Sithe’, sitha – see thou, do thou see ‘Sitha! Here he is!’

Sitter – an old fester'd sore (SB)

Sivv – a sieve (SB)

Size – a kind of paste to stiffen woollen and cotton warps (SB)

Skail – to stir, to potter, to let out, as "skail th' foyer," stir the fire (SB)

Skam – did skim or take off (SB)

Skeawl or Sceawl – to scour, to frown (SB)

Skeawlin – scouling (SB)

Skeawlt – scoured (SB)

Skeawln – they scoul (SB)

Skeawltn – they scouled (SB)

Skeawr – to scour; Skeawrin, scouring; Skeawrt, scoured; Skeawrn, they scour; Skeawrtn – they scoured (SB)

Skellied – browned and blistered by heat

Skellut – crooked, awry (SB)

Skelter – to run or ride at great speed: "Helter-skelter," galloping recklessly, with only a halter to guide the horse (SB)

Skenn – to squint; Skennin, squinting; Skend, squinted; Skend, they squint; Skednt, they squinted (SB)

Skens – skenning – squint, also look ‘If thou’d as mony een as Skennin Billy,

            and he could see everywheere at once’

Skew – to twist round

Skift – to shift, to remove (SB)

Skiftin – shifting (SB)

Skifted – shifted (SB)

Skiftn – they shift (SB)

Skiftnt – they shifted (SB)

Skillit – a small pan (SB)

Skirmidge – skirmish (SB)

Skirmidgin – skirmishing (SB)

Skirmidgn – they skirmish (SB)

Skirmidgnt – they skirmished (SB)

Skode or Scode – scald (SB)

Skodin – scalding (SB)

Skoded – scalded (SB)

Skodn – they scald (SB)

Skodnt – they scalded (SB)

Skode or Scode-yed – scald head (SB)

Skoo, Schoo – school ‘At number one, i’ Bowton’s yard, mi gronny keeps a skoo’ (SB)

Skooin – schooling (SB)

Skood – schooled (SB)

Skoon – they school (SB)

Skoodn – they schooled (SB)

Skriev – to froth at the mouth after death (SB)

Skrievt – frothed (SB)

Skrike – screams, cry loudly ‘Heaw tha skrikes’; to shriek (SB)

Skrike o' day – break of day; Day-skrike, daybreak (SB)

Skrikin’ – screaming; shrieking (SB)

Shrickn – they shriek (SB)

Skriknt – they shrieked (SB)

Skrikt – shrieked (SB)

Skryem – to scream (SB)

Skryemin – screaming (SB)

Skryempt – screamed (SB)

Skryemptn – they screamed (SB)

Skuse or Scuse – excuse, palliation (SB)

Skutter – to run in haste and terror: "He skuttert away." "They skuttertn off sharply." (SB)

Skyoy – the sky (SB)

Skyoyme or Skime – to be distant, indifferent, disrespectfully cool in manner and conversation. Over-dressed and under-taught ladies, often evince their superiority by skymin, and a very natural way it is, for those who have none other. Gentlemen also, or persons so called, have been known to skyme in company of worse clad but  better hearted men; and "ministers" of religion are sometimes known to exhibit this sort of distance keeping, especially if a lady happen to set the example. (SB)

Skyoyme – to be sickly, squeamish of food, affected, indifferent in manner; Skyoymous – squeamish, affected (SB)

Skyoymin – acting affectedly, squeamishly (SB)

Skyoymt – skyoymed (SB)

Skyoymn – they skyoyme (SB)

Skyoymtn – they skyoymed. (SB)

Slack – a hollow place, a small valley (SB)

Slaigh – sloes, berries of the black thorn (SB)

Slaik – to lick with the tongue, to daub with slaver, to fawn (SB)

Slank – soft, flexible (SB)

Slap – a smack, a blow with the open hand (SB)

Slart – to spill or throw liquid ‘Aw slarted him wi’ wayter’

Slatt – to spill, to shed, to splash (SB)

Slatt – splashed (SB)

Slattin – splashing (SB)

Slattn – they splash (SB)

Slatt – excited, plashed (SB)

Slattnt – they splashed. (SB)

Slatter – to spill

Slattert – spilled, shed (SB)

Slaunches – a place near Rochdale (SB)

Slaunt – inscincerity, scornful praise, pretension (SB)

Slaver – slime of the mouth (SB)

Sleawgh – the same (SB)

Sleawm – to slumber (SB)

Sleawmin – slumbering (SB)

Sleawms – slumbers (SB)

Sleawmt – slumbered (SB)

Sleawmn – they slumber (SB)

Sleawmtn – they slumbered (SB)

Sleawtch – slouch, to bend down (SB)

Sleawtchin – bending (SB0

Sleawtcht – slouched (SB)

Sleawtchin – slouching (SB)

Sleawchn – they slouch (SB)

Sleawtchnt – they slouched (SB)

Sleck – small coal (slack), also impudence

Sleck – to quench a thirst, or ‘sleck’ a fir out

Slect – quenched; Sleckin, quenching (SB)

Sleckn – they quench (SB)

Slecknt – they quenched (SB)

Sled – a carriage without wheels, a sledge (SB)

Sleet – snow and rain (SB)

Sleety – given to sleet (SB)

Sleeveliss – purposeless, ineffectual (SB)

Sleeveliss-arnt – an errand to no purpose, not likely to succeed (SB)

Slice – a flat bit of wood used in the stirring of porridge or broth: a porridge slice: also a slice of bacon or other meat (SB)

Slift – to slide, to shift (SB)

Slifter – a thing to slide (SB)

Slifterin – sliding in a groove (SB)

Slicken – slack, pliant (SB)

Slim – slender, light, pliable (SB)

Sling yer hook – go, clear off

Slippy (look slippy) – be sharp, also slippery

Slither – silly talk

Slifter – a crevice , a crack

Slivvin – a number of hanks of yarn.

Slob – slutch, mire (SB)

Slobby – miry, splashy (SB)

Slont – to slant, to lean (SB)

Slontin – slanting (SB)

Slooar – to grasp (obs.) (SB)

Sloode – the track of wheels (obs.) (SB)

Slope – decamp, generally in debt or disgrace

Sloppery – dirty, miry (SB)

Slot – a slit, a slide for a thing to move in (SB)

Slotch – a gluttonous, drunken clown; Slotchin, gobbling, wallowing (SB)

Slotcht – wallowed to bursting: "He slotcht it, didno he?" (SB)

Slowtter – slaughter (SB)

Slowtterin – slaughtering (SB)

Slowttert – slaughtered (SB)

Slowttern – they slaughter (SB)

Slowttertn – they slaughtered (SB)

Slovn or Sloven – split, cloven (SB)

Slovent – cleft, also they cleft (SB)

Slovnin – cleaving.

Sloven'n – they cleave (SB)

Sloyther – to loiter, to be idle (SB)

Sloytherin – loitering (SB)

Sloythert – loitered (SB)

Sloythern – they loiter (SB)

Sloythertn – they loitered (SB)

Slummer – to slumber (SB)

Slummerin – slumbering (SB)

Slummert – slumbered (SB)

Slummern – they slumber (SB)

Slummertn – they slumbered (SB)

Slur – a slide, to slide, also a slander

Slurr – to slide; Slurrin, sliding; Slurn, they slide; Slurdn, they did slide (SB)

Slutch – mud, sludge, aspersioins ‘Do stop this throwin’ slutch abeawt’

Slutchy – muddy (SB)

Sluttered – to slide ‘He sluttered eaut o’ th’ chair’

Slutterin’ –  came in late

Sluttermuck – a descriptive expression

Slyet – to encourage, to excite, to set a dog at a person. "Why didto slyet th' dhog at him?" (SB)

Slyetin – exciting, encouraging; Slyetn – they excite (SB)

Slyetnt – they excited (SB)

Smash – to break to pieces. Smashin, crashing to pieces; Smasht, broken.

Smashn – they break (SB)

Smashnt – they broke (SB)

Smatch – an incipient disorder, as, "a smatch ov fever" means inclined to fever (SB)

Smeawch – to kiss

Smeawtch – a kiss (SB)

Smeawtchin – kissing (SB)

Smeawtchn – they kiss (SB)

Smeawtchnt – they kissed (SB)

Smeln – they smell (SB)

Smeltn – they smelled (SB)

Smit, or Smut – a spot (SB)

Smitty flecky – spotted (SB)

Smo – small; Smoer – smaller; Smoist – smallest. (SB)

Smock – a woman's shift (SB)

Smock-fac't – white faced. (SB)

Smook – to smoke (SB)

Smookin – smoking (SB)

Smookt – smoked (SB)

Smookn – they smoke (SB)

Smooknt – they smoked (SB)

Smoor – to smother (SB)

Smoorin – smothering (SB)

Smoort – smothered (SB)

Smoorn – they smother (SB)

Smoortn – they smothered (SB)

Smoot – smooth

Smooter – smoother (SB)

Smootist – smoothest (SB)

Smudge – a stink (SB)

Smudgy – stinking (SB)

Snaffle – to speak through the nose (SB)

Snaffln – they snaffle (SB)

Snaffltn – they snaffled.

Snape – or Sneype, to check, to reprimand: " He sneypt em," he reproved them. (SB)

Sneck – a lever-like latch to a door. Formerly a sneckbant (string to pull up the lever.)

Sneeze, snuff: also to sneeze or neeze, from taking snuff; Sneeze-hurn, a horn to hold snuff (SB)

Snicksnarls – tangled, confusion

Sniddle – long grass or stubble (SB)

Snidge – a greedy, sordid, good-for-nothing person (SB)

Snidgy – shabby, mean (SB)

Snift – a moment: "It's dun in a snift;" also to sniff at the nose (SB)

Snifter – to whimper, to cry; Snifterin – crying.

Sniftert – cried (SB)

Sniftern – they cry (SB)

Sniftertn – they cried (SB)

Snifterin-fellow – a pitiful fellow (SB)

Snig – to pull quickly or jerk

Snig – an eel, also to snatch a thing: "He snig'd it fromeh," he snatcht it from me.

Snig-poy – eel-pie

Snip – to break off a small piece; Snipt – broken. (SB)

Snippin – breaking (SB)

Sniptn – they break (SB)

Sniptnt – they broke (SB)

Snite – to blow the nose (SB)

Snittn – having blown the nose (SB)

Snit – a discharge from the nose (SB)

Snob – a shoemaker, or rather a cobler, a patcher, an underworker (SB)

Snoblint – snow-blind, short sighted (SB)

Snod – smooth and sleek; snug (SB)

Snood – hair ribbon

Snoode – a fillet to tie up a woman's hair. (obs.) (SB)

Snook – to smell, to go prying about other people's affairs (SB)

Snoor – to snore in sleep (SB)

Snoorin – snoring (SB)

Snoort – snored (SB)

Snoorn – they snore (SB)

Snoortn – they snored (SB)

Snot – mucus of the brain (SB)

Snotter – to discharge snot (SB)

Snooze – a slumber, a doze (SB)

Snoozin – dozing; Snoozt, dozed; Snoozn, they doze; Snooztn, they dozed (SB)

Snub – to check, to reprove (SB)

Snubbin – reprehending, huffing contemptuously (SB)

Snubbd – huffed (SB)

Snubbn – they huff (SB)

Snubbnt – they huffed (SB)

Snuddle – to lie close together, to cuddle (SB)

Snuft – to snuff up the nose (SB)

Snuftin – smelling, snuffing (SB)

Sny – to indicate dislike, or indifference, by look or manner; to be squeamish or delicate in food. Thus a good dame would say to her young and over-indulged boy, or to her tea-loving daughter, "Come, getthe brekfust ettn, an dunno sit snyin theer.  Thoose porritch, awm sure, ar good enoof for ony lady or gentlemon i'th lond, an ivth, arno' good enoof forthee, theaw mungoo beawt, that's o'." (SB)

Snye – to draw up the nose scornfully

Snyin – swarming (packed like a swarm of eels)

Soe – to sew; Soin, sewing (SB)

Soeal – fastenings for cattle in the shippon

Sogg – heavy clumsy blow or push; Sogger, a blow or push that sickens, that hurts grievously (SB)

Sokkn – soaked, saturated (SB)

Sollit – quiet in company, nothing to say ‘What’s op theau’rt so sollit?’

Soltch – a heavy fall (SB)

Soltcht – fell heavily (SB)

Soltcht – they fall (SB)

Soltchnt – they fell (SB)

Sompan – example ‘I’ll mak’ thee a sompan’

Sond – sand ‘These sodiurs an’ parsons, an’ maisters o’ lond,

            He lays ‘em i’ th’ greawnd, wi their meawths full o’ sond’

Sondy – sandy (SB)

Sonded – sanded (SB)

Sone – sewn; Sodn, they sewed; also to sow grain (SB)

Sope – slat, a small quantity of liquid. Farmers generally give a slat of milk over the

actual measure

Soo – a sow, a pig (SB)

Soo – to sigh, to moan (SB)

Sooa – so ‘Sooa Rose an’ me ull soon be one’

Sooart – sort

Sooin – sighing, moaning of the wind: noise of distant waters (SB)

Sood – moaned (SB)

Soon – they moan (SB)

Soodn – moaned (SB)

Sooly – grimy, unwashed (SB)

Soolier – more sooly (SB)

Soolyist – most sooly (SB)

Soont – sand (SB)

Soont-hole – a place near Rochdale (SB)

Soople – a supple, a stick of teazle or ash; a twisted sprout, by means of which blacksmiths hold their chissels or punches whilst they cut or indent hot or cold iron; also a description of thrown silk. (SB)

Soor – sore (SB)

Soory – sorry (SB)

Sooryer – more sorry (SB)

Sooryist – most sorry (SB)

Sope – a sup, a small draught (SB)

Sope, slat – a small quantity of liquid. Farmers generally give a slat of milk over the

actual measure

Soss – to fall with a heavy thud

Soss – to plump down on a seat (SB)

Sossin – lounging, idling (SB)

Sot – sat (SB)

Sotten – seated (SB)

So't – so it: "An so't wur dunwi," and so it was done with (SB)

Sow – the head (SB)

Sowd – sold ‘I sowd th’  owd couch to beigh ‘em bread’ (SB)

Sowdn – we or they sold. (SB)

Sowgh – to sigh (SB)

Sowght – sighed (SB)

Sowghn – we, or they sigh (SB)

Sowt – sought ‘He sowt not wealth’

Soyl – soil; also to soil, to make unclean (SB)

Soylt, soiled (SB)

Soylin – sailing spotting (SB)

Soyln – they soil (SB)

Soyltn – they soiled (SB)

Soyne or Sooyne – soon (SB)

Soyner – sooner (SB)

Soynist – soonest (SB)

Spack – to settle at a place

Spade-graft – a spade-depth: to delve, a spade deep (AB)

Spank – to provoke (SB)

Spankin – provoking; also dashing: "He's a spankin felley." (SB)

Spare – thin, slender: "He's very spare," he's very slender. (SB)

Sparrow-bills – short nails used by shoemakers. (SB)

Sparth – a place near Rochdale.Spavined – a strained horse (SB)

Speawt (up th’ speawt) – in pawn ‘An’ mi halliday clooas are o on ‘em up th’ speawt’

Speawt – to harangue.

Speawted – spouted (SB)

Speawting – spouting (SB)

Speawtn – they spout (SB)

Speawtnt – they spouted (SB)

Speek – he spoke (SB)

Speekn – they spoke (SB)

Speer or Spier – a boarded partition betwixt the door and the fire of a cottage, to keep the wind off (SB)

Spelk – a splinter of wood used to keep a broken limb in its proper position (SB)

Spelkt – bound with spelks and tape (SB)

Spelkin – applying spelks (SB)

Spelkn – they spelk (SB)

Spelknt – they spelked (SB)

Sperr – to ask; to enquire

Sperrin – enquiring (SB)

Sperrd – enquired (SB)

Sperrn – they enquire (SB)

Sperrdn – they enquired (SB)

Speyk – speak ‘May id allus be aar way o’ speykin’

Spiffin – fine, gaudily dressed

Spirrings – the banns of marriage, also to spir or question

Spit – spittle, saliva

Spit – likeness ‘He’s th’ very spit ov his dad’

Splinter – a piece, a fragment (SB)

Spinthreed – a place near Rochdale (SB)

Splutter – in great haste ‘Off in a splutter’; hurry, confusion (SB)

Spoe – a spaw, a mineral spring (SB)

Spoke – a stave of a carriage wheel (SB)

Spokes – staves (SB)

Spokkn – spoken (SB)

Spokn – spoken (SB)

Spon – a span; also to span (SB)

Sponnin – spanning (SB)

Spond – spanned (SB)

Spondn – they spanned (SB)

Spon-new – quite new (SB)

Spone – spawn (SB)

Spon't – spawned (SB)

Sponein – spawning (SB)

Spon'n – they spawn (SB)

Spontn – they spawned (SB)

Spooak – spoke

Spooart – sport

Spod or Spodden – a stream in Spotland, near Rochdale (SB)

Spoos, spools – bobbins for weavers (SB)

Spote – he or she spat (SB)

Spoyl – to spoil (SB)

Spoylin – spoiling (SB)

Spoylt – spoiled (SB)

Spoyln – they spoil (SB)

Spoyltn – they spoiled (SB)

Sprad – was spread; also did spread (SB)

Spreawt – to sprout, to bud, also a sprout (SB)

Spreawtin – sprouting (SB)

Spreawted – sprouted (SB)

Spreawtn – they sprout (SB)

Spreawtnt – they sprouted (SB)

Sprit – to vegetate, to sprout (SB)

Sprittin – sprouting (SB)

Spritt – sprouted (SB)

Spritn – they sprout (SB)

Spritnt – they sprouted (SB)

Sprod – to spread, to swagger (SB)

Sproddin – swaggering (SB)

Sprodd – swaggered (SB)

Sprodn – they swagger (SB)

Sprodnt – they swaggered (SB)

Sprote – to brag, to amplify, to display (SB)

Sprotin – bragging (SB)

Sproted – bragged (SB)

Sprotn – they brag (SB)

Sprotnt – they bragged (SB)

Sproze – to talk big, to swagger (SB)

Sprozin – self exalting SB)

Sprort – self exalted (SB)

Sproze – they sproze (SB)

Sproznt – they sprozed (SB)

Spudd – a gush of water (SB)

Spuds – potatoes

Sputter – to stutter, in an angry confused manner (SB)

Sputterin – stuttering (SB)

Sputtert – stuttered (SB)

Sputtern – they stutter (SB)

Sputtertn – they stuttered (SB)

Spwort – sport (SB)

Spwortin – sporting (SB)

Spworted – sported (SB)

Spwortn – they sport (SB)

Spwortnt – they sported (SB)

Spyek – to speak, also spoke (SB)

Spyekin – speaking (SB0

Spyekn'n – they speak (SB)

Spyeknt – they spoke (SB)

Stadles – marks of the small pox (SB)

Stakehill – near Middleton (SB)

Stail or Steyle – a handle to a vessel or tool (SB)

Stale, steyl – steal ‘Iv aw turn eawt to stale, folk’ll co me a thief’

Stang – a pole

Stangin – carrying hay to the barn on poles; Stangd, carried on poles (SB)

Stang – to carry on poles (SB)

Stangn – they carryon poles (SB)

Stangnt – they carried on poles (SB)

Stang – it stung (SB)

Stanniel – a hawk (SB)

Stannicliffe – near Middleton (SB)

Stare-a-blaze – a person rushing about, always in a hurry

Stark, utterly, entirely, as, "stark mad, stark naked;" also to be, stiff and sore from over exertion, as, "Awm stark wi wawkin."  (SB)

Starkn – to stiffen (SB)

Starknt – stiffened (SB)

Star't – stared; Starin – staring; Starn – they stare.

Startn – they stared:  "Byth mass heaw they star't, When aw geet toth' Mumps; "Meh owd hat imeh hoot, An meh chlogs full o'stumps." Jone o’ Grenfilt. (SB)

Staw – will not go

Stall’d, stow’d – tired ‘For o’ weavin’ this rubbitch aw’m getting’ reet stow’d’

Stawk – a stalk: also to stride; Stawkin, striding; Stawkt, stridden. Stawkn, they stride. Stawknt – they strode (SB)

Stawp – to step clumsily (SB)

Stawmp – the same (SB)

Stawmpin – stamping (SB)

Stawter – to totter, to stumble; Stawtert, tottered (SB)

Stawtern – they totter (SB)

Stawtertn – they tottered (SB)

Steawk – a stalk, a handle (SB)

Steawnge – a dull pain

Steawp – to stoop (SB)

Steawpin – stooping (SB)

Steawpt – stooped (SB)

Steawpn – they stoop (SB)

Steawpnt – they stooped (SB)

Steawp an reawp – a clearing off; a going through with a thing: "He's taen o' at they hadn, steawp an reawp." (SB)

Steawnd – to astound (SB)

Steawnded – astounded (SB)

Steawt – stout (SB)

Steelhole – a stile

Steep – rennet, the juice of a calf's maw (SB)

Steigh – a ladder, also a stile (SB)

Steyl – a handle, ‘A brush steyl’

Stiddy – steady, also an anvil (SB)

Stickle – to stand up for a cause, to adhere, to reiterate (SB)

Sticklt – stood up, abided by (SB)

Stickln – they stickle (SB)

Stickltn – they stiekled (SB)

Stickle-butt – to persist right or wrong; to go head first at a thing (SB)

Stir, stur – festivity, an exciting event ‘Next singin’ stur’

Stirk – a young beast (SB)

Sto'd – stopped (SB)

Stoe – to stop, to be set fast (SB)

Stoin – stopping (SB)

Sto'n – they stop (SB)

Stodn – they stopped (SB)

Ston, stonds – stands ‘It stonds upon a hilly ridge’

Ston or Stond – stand (SB)

Stone-smatch – a red-start (SB)

Stonnin – or Stondin, standing (SB)

Stoo – a low seat, a three legged stool (SB)

Stoode – stood (SB)

Stoodn – they stood (SB)

Stoop – a post ‘A gate stoop’

Stoop and Stud – a stump, a post to protect foot roads,  and passages in fields (SB)

Stottar – to stagger (SB)

Stottart – staggered (SB)

Stotterin – staggering (SB)

Stottern – they stagger (SB)

Stottertn – they staggered (SB)

Stowed – stopped. When a horse refuses to go it is said to be stowing

Stown – stolen (SB)

Stracklin – a rough, careless fool

Stracklin – a rash, giddy person (SB)

Stract – distracted, phrenzied (SB)

Strangeways – a place near Manchester (SB)

Strap – credit ‘He’d noather strap nor brass for t’ pay’

Straunge – strange (SB)

Street-bridge – a place near Royton (SB)

Streng – string (SB)

Stretch – a period of time, a distance

Strey – straw (SB)

Strey berry – strawberry, pl. the same (SB)

Strike – two pecks ["Peck" - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons] (SB)

Strikle – a flat piece of wood to mete corn in the measure (SB)

Strinkle – to sprinkle (SB)

Strines – handles of a barrow, sides of a ladder (SB)

Stroddle – to straddle (SB)

Stroddlin, strodlin – straddle, standing with the legs wide apart

Stroddln – they straddle (SB)

Stroddltn – they straddled (SB)

Stroke – he struck (SB)

Strokn – they struck (SB)

Strollop – an untidy female (SB)

Strollops – rags, tatters, dirt: "Theaw great strollops” (SB)

Strollopin – gadding about all strollops (SB)

Strowl – to stroll (SB)

Strowlin – strolling (SB)

Strowlt – strolled (SB)

Strowln – they stroll (SB)

Strowltn – they strolled (SB)

Strung – strong; Strunk – the same. (SB)

Strushon – waste (SB)

Strushons – wastefulness (SB)

Stryem – stream (SB)

Stryemin – streaming (SB)

Stryemin – streamed (SB)

Stryemn – they stream (SB)

Stryemtn – they streamed (SB)

Stub – a short stump (SB)

Stumpy – short, dumpy (SB)

Stunnish – to stun: also to sprain a joint (SB)

Stunnisht – stunned (SB)

Stuunishin – stunning (SB)

Stunnishn – they stun (SB)

Stunnishnt – they stunned (SB)

Stur – stir (SB)

Sturrin – stirring; Stur, stirred (SB)

Sturred – stirred (SB)

Sturdn – they stirred (SB)

Sturn – they stir (SB)

Stutt – to stutter (SB)

Stutted – stuttered (SB)

Stuttin – stuttering (SB)

Stuttn – they stutter (SB)

Stuttnt – they stuttered (SB)

Styek – a steak; also to stake a wager (SB)

Styem – steam (SB)

Styemin – steaming (SB)

Styemn – they steam (SB)

Styemt – steamed (SB)

Styemtn – they steamed (SB)

Suddler – a wooden implement for suddling or twirling clothes about in

a tub on a washing day

Sulky – sullen, ill tempered (SB)

Sum – some (SB)

Summat, summut – something, somewhat ‘Is summat up, or summat?’

Summut – somewhat (SB)

Sumthin – something (SB)

Sumdy – somebody (SB)

Sumheaw – somehow (SB)

Sumgate – some manner (SB)

Sunk – a song: "Come, givus a sunk." (SB)

Sunkn – sunk, put down (SB)

Sun-leet – sunlight

Sur – sir (SB)

Suse – six (SB)

Suss – come hither to a dog (SB)

Suss-middin – a lazy woman, too idle to move from her seat (SB)

Swab – to swoon (SB)

Swabd – swooned (SB)

Swabbin – swooning (SB)

Swabn – they swoon (SB)

Swabnt – they swooned (SB)

Swack – to fall ‘Aw fell swack o’ mi back’

Swad – a husk (SB)

Swaddy – husky (SB)

Swadlins – wrappers and clothes for infants (SB)

Swage – to assuage, to mitigate (SB)

Swailor – a wholesale corn or provision dealer (SB)

Swap, swop – exchange ‘So when this world for th’ next tha swaps’

Swarfy – dun, dark coloured (SB)

Swarthin – swinging bout on a road from one side to another

Swat – smacked ‘Hoo swat him o’er th’ face’

Swat – sweat ‘Hoo laught an’ swat, her sides fair shakin’,

            For she, that day, had th’ o’on wot – bakin’

Swat – hurry ‘He’s awlus in a swat’

Swathe or Swaith – grass put aside by the scythe of the mower (SB)

Swathe-bawk – to leave grass uncut, in the sweep of the scythe (SB)

Swat – past tense of sweat (SB)

Swatch – a patch, a fragment; Swatches, patches (SB)

Swattle – to dabble, to waste (SB)

Swatter – the same (SB)

Sweal – to burn

Sweel – a great blaze (SB)

Sweelin – burning, blazing.  Sweeling th' moors; Sweelin th' chimly (SB)

Swelt – to melt with heat (SB)

Swelted – over-heated, melted; ‘Awm fere swelted i’ this reawm’

Swelterin – melting (SB)

Sweltern – they melt (SB)

Sweltert – melted (SB)

Sweltertn – they melted (SB)

Sweltin – melting (SB)

Swilk – to shake a liquid in a vessel till it dashes over

Swet – to sweat (SB)

Swettin – sweating (SB)

Swetted – sweated (SB)

Swetn – they sweat (SB)

Swetnt – they sweated (SB)

Swilk – to splash, to spill out of a vessel (SB)

Swilkin – spilling (SB)

Swilkt – spilled (SB)

Swilkn – they spill (SB)

Swilknt – they spilled (SB)

Swill – to drink, to guzzle, also to rince, to wash out a vessel (SB)

Swillin – drinking (SB)

Swilld – drank (SB)

Swilln – they drink (SB)

Swilldn – they drank (SB)

Swillins – hog's meat (SB)

Swingin – waving to and fro suspended (SB)

Swingin-sticks – hazle rods to beat or batt wool (SB)

Swingle – a stretcher to a plough (SB)

Swingein – big, heavy.  "A swingein piece of beef," (a term rather local. (SB)

Swinhert – a swineherd (SB)

Swipper – strong, active, nimble, lithe

Swipperly – actively: "He ran swipperly." (SB)

Swither – tu burn fiercely

Swither – to dry up, to wither: also to burn (SB)

Switherin – burning (SB)

Swithern – warped, crooked

Swithn – twisted, crooked, writhen (SB)

Swol – to fasten cattle in their boose (SB)

Swollin – fastening (SB)

Swolt – fastened (SB)

Swhop – soap (SB)

Swort – sort, also the hyde of a pig (SB)

Swortin – sorting (SB)

Sworted – sorted. (SB)

Sworter – sorter (SB)

Swortn – they sort (SB)

Swortnt – they sorted (SB)

Sydda, Siddal – near Middleton; Sydda-moor, near the same, now inclosed (SB)

Sye or Sie – to drain milk or wort, through a sieve, also to rain very fast: "It kept syin, and rainin (SB)

Syel – to seal (SB)

Syelin – sealing (SB)

Syelt – sealed (SB)

Syeln – they seal (SB)

Syeltn, – they sealed (SB)

Syem – a seam (SB)

Syemster – a seamer, one who sews (SB)

Syemin – seaming (SB)

Syemt – seamed (SB)

Syemn – they seam (SB)

Syemtn – they seamed (SB)

Syet – seat (SB)

Syeted – seated (SB)

Syetin – seating (SB)

Syetn – they seat (SB)

Syetnt – they seated (SB)

Syez – to seize (SB)

Syest – seized (SB)

Syezin – seizing (SB)

Syesn – they seize (SB)

Syestnt – they seized (SB)

Syezen – season (SB)