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SMUDGED.—Besmeared.

"The bwoy's vaayce be all smudged wi' jam."

SMUG.—Secret.

"Mind e' kips smug about what I jus' telled 'e."

SMUTS.—Small pieces of soot flying about and settling on things, called "blacks" also.

SNAAILS'-PAAYCE.—Advancing very slowly.

SNACK.—A small piece, a small quantity.

SNAPPER.—To crackle, to make a sharp short sound.

SNATCH.—A small quantity.

“I got jus' a snatch of breakvus avoor I sterted, an' that's all I had to yet to-daay."

SNE-AD.—The main pole of a scythe.

SNICKER.—To sneer.

"If 'e snickers at I I'ooll maayke 'e laugh t'other zide o' yer mouth."

SNICKS.—Shares, halves.

SNIGGER.—To laugh in a silly way.

SNIFFLE.—To make a noise when inhaling through the nose. A dog is said to sniffle at a rat hole when smelling to know if there be a rat there.

SNIP.—There is the expression, "she 'ood zaay snip to his snap," i.c., "she would readily accept an offer of marriage from him."

SNIVEL.—The noise a child makes when commencing to cry before breaking out loudly.

SNOCK.—To give a downward blow on the head or top of anything.

"A allus snocks the candle to put 'un out zo's 'e can't light 'un agin."

SNOOZLE-DOWN.—To nestle down as a child does to go to sleep.

SNOUL.—A thick piece.

"Thee hev gin I a snoul o' baaycon an' no mistaayke."

SPAAYDE.—The gummy deposit at the corner of the eye.

SPADGER.—A sparrow.

SPAKIN'-VINE.—The attempt to speak otherwise than in the dialect (in town fashion).