The Broad Scots Dictionary

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Sae - "so"
Saft - "soft"
Sair - "to serve; a sore"
Sairly or sarlie - "sorley"
Sair't - "served"
Sark - "a shirt; a shift"
Sarkit - "provided in shirts"
Saugh - "the willow"
Saul - "soul"
Saumont - "salmon"
Saut - "salt"
Saw - "to sow"
Sawin' - "sowing"
Sax - "six"
Scaith - "to damage, to injure; injury"
Scar or scaur - "a cliff"
Scaud - "to scald"
Scauld - "to scold"
Scaur - "apt to be scared"
Scon - "a cake of bread"
Scraich or screigh - "to scream as a hen, partridge, etc."
Scrievin' - "gleesomely, swiftly"
Scrimpet - "did scant, scanty"
Scroggie - "bushy"
See'd - "did see"
Seizin' - "seizing"
Sel - "self" A body's sel "one's self alone"
Sell't - "did sell"
Sen' - "send"
Sen't - "I, etc, sent, or did send it; send it"
Servan' - "servant"
Settlin' - "settling" To get a settlin' "to be frightened into quietness"
Sets - "sets off, goes away"
Shachled - "distorted, shapeless"
Shaird - "a shred, a shard"
Shangan - "a stick cleft at one end for putting the tail of a dog, etc., into, by way of mischief, or to frighten him away"
Shavie - "an ill turn"
Sheepshank - "to think one's self nae sheepshank, to be conceited"
Sherra-moor - "Sheriffmoor, the famous battle fought in the rebellion, A.D. 1715"
Sheugh - "a ditch, a trench, a sluice"
Shiel or shealing - "a shed"
Shill - "shrill"
Shog - "a shock; a push off at one side"
Shoo - "to fit"
Shool - "a shovel"
Shoon - "shoes"
Shore - "to offer, to threaten"
Shor'd - "offered"
Shouther - "the shoulder"
Shure - "did shear, shore"
Sic - "such"
Sicker - "sure, steady"
Sidelins - "sidelong, slanting"
Silken snood - "a silk fillet, token of virginity"
Siller - "silver, money"
Simmer - "summer"
Sin - "a son"
Sin' - "since"
Sin' syne - "since then"
Skaith - (see Scaith)
Skellum - "a worthless fellow"
Skelp - "to strike, to slap; to walk with a smart tripping step; a smart stroke"
Skelpie-limmer - "a reproachful term in female scolding"
Skelpin' - "stepping, walking"
Skinklin - "a small portion"
Skirling - "shrieking, crying"
Skirl't - "shrieked"
Sklented - "ran, or hit in an oblique direction"
Skouth - "freedom to converse without restraint; range, scope"
Skyrin - "shining; making a great show"
Skyte - "force, very forcible motion"
Slade - "slide"
Slae - "a sloe"
Slap - "a gate; a breach in a fence"
Slaw - "slow"
Slee - "sly" Sleest "sliest"
Sleekit - "sleek, sly"
Sliddery - "slippery"
Slip-shod - "smooth-shod; without stockings"
Sloken - "quenched"
Slypet - "fell"
Sma' - "small"
Smiddy - "a smithy"
Smoor - "to smother"
Smoor'd - "smothered"
Smoutie - "smutty, obscene, ugly"
Snapper - "to stumble; a stumble"
Snaw - "snow; to snow"
Snaw-broo - "melted snow"
Snawie - "snowy"
Sneck or snick - "the latch of a door"
Sned - "to lop, to cut off"
Sned Besoms - "to cut brooms"
Sneeshin - "snuff"
Sneeshin-mill - "a snuff-box"
Snell - "bitter, biting"
Snick or sneck - "a door latch"
Snirtle - "to laugh restrainedly"
Snood - "a ribbon for binding the hair"
Snool - "one whose spirit is broken with oppressive slavery; to submit tamely, to sneak"
Snoove - "to go smoothly and constantly; to sneak"
Snowk - "to scent or snuff, as a dog, etc."
Snowked - "scented, snuffed"
Sodyer - "soldier"
Sonsie - "having sweet, engaging looks; lucky, jolly"
Soom - "swim"
Sooth - "truth; a petty oath"
Sough - "a heavy sigh, a sound dying on the ear"
Souple - "flexible, swift"
Souter - "a shoemaker"
Souther or sowther - "solder"
Southron - "Suthern, an old name for the English nation"
Sowens - "a dish made of oatmeal; the seeds of oatmeal soured, etc., flummery"
Sowp - "a spoonful, a small quantity of anything liquid"
Sowth - "to try over a tune with a low whistle"
Spae - "to prophesy, to divine"
Spails - "chips"
Spaul - "a limb"
Spaviet - "having the spavin"
Spean or spane - "to wean"
Speat or spate - "a sweeping torrent, after rain or thaw"
Speel - "to climb"
Spence - "the country parlour"
Spier - "to ask; to inquire"
Splatter - "to splutter, a splutter"
Spleughan - "a tobacco-pouch"
Sprackle - "to clamber; to climb with difficulty"
Sprattle - "to scramble"
Spreckled - "spotted, speckled"
Spring - "a quick air in music; a scottish reel"
Sprit - "a tough rooted plant; something like rushes"
Spunk - "fire, mettle, wit"
Spurtle - "a stick used in making oatmeal pudding or porridge"
Squad - "a crew, a party"
Squattle - "to sprawl"
Squeel - "a scream, a screech; to scream"
Stacher - "to stagger"
Stack - "a rick of corn, hay, etc."
Staig - "a two-year old horse"
Stalwart - "strong, stout"
Stan' - "to stand" Stan't "did stand"
Stane - "stand"
Stang - "an acute pain, a twinge; to sting"
Stap - "stop"
Stark - "stout"
Startle - "to run as cattle stung by the gad-fly"
Staukin' - "walking, disdainfully"
Staumrel - "a blockhead; half-witted"
Staw - "did steal; to surfeit"
Stechin' - "cramming"
Steek - "to shut; a stitch"
Steer - "to molest; to stir"
Stell - "a still"
Sten't - "reared"
Stents - "tribute; dues of any kind"
Stey - "steep" Steyest "steepest"
Stick an' stow - "totally, altogether"
Stilt - "a crutch; to halt, to limp"
Stimpart - "the eighth part of a Winchester bushel"
Stirk - "a cow or a bullock a year old"
Stock - "a plant or root of colewort, cabbage, etc."
Stockin' - "a stocking" Throwing the stockin' "when the bride and bridegroom are put into bed, and the candle out, the former throws a stocking at random among the company, and the person whom it strikes is the next that will be married"
Stoiter - "to stagger, tostammer"
Stooked - "made up in shocks as corn"
Stoor -"sounding hollow, strong, and hoarse"
Stot - "an ox"
Stoup or stowp - "a kind of jug or dish with a handle"
Stoure - "dust, more particularily dust in motion"
Stowlins - "by stealth"
Stown - "stolen"
Stoyte - "to stumble
Strack - "did strike"
Strae - "straw" To die a fair strae death, to die in bed.
Straik - "did strike"
Straikit - "stroked"
Strappin' - "tall and handsome"
Straught - "straight, to straughten"
Streek - "stretched tight; to stretch"
Striddle - "straddle"
Stroup - "the spout"
Strunt - "spirituous liquor of any kind; to walk sturdily; huff, sullenness"
Studdie - "an anvil"
Stuff - "corn or pulse of any kind"
Stumpie - "diminutive of stump"
Sturt - "trouble; to molest"
Sturtin' - "frighted"
Styme - "a glimmer"
Sucker - "sugar"
Sud - "should"
Sugh or saigh - "the continued rushing noise of wind or water"
Sumph - "a soft, stupid fellow"
Swaird - "sward"
Swall'd - "swelled"
Swank - "stately, jolly"
Swankie or swanker - "a tight, strapping young fellow or girl"
Swap - "an exchange, to barter"
Swarf - "to swoon, a swoon"
Swat - "did sweat"
Swatch - "a sample"
Swats - "drink, good ale"
Sweaten - "sweating"
Sweer - "lazy, averse." Dead sweer "extremely averse"
Swoor - "swore, did swear"
Swinge - "to beat, to whip"
Swirl - "a curve, an eddying blast or pool, a knot in wood"
Swirlie - "knaggie, full of knots"
Swither - "to hesitate in choice, an irresolute wavering in choice"
Syebow - "a thick-necked leek"