“I mun tell her fadder when I see him—she’s gittin’ varra _slape_,” old John Howe of Branthwaite Hall called out when he witnessed, by chance, a meeting of sweethearts on a lonely road. Slare, C, to walk slowly. “He may be a sharp worker, but he’s a _slarin’_ walker.” Said by a farmer’s wife of a new come man servant. Slashy, C, sloppy. “It was beginnin’ to thowe, an’ was varra _slashy_ an’ cāld.” _Betty Yewdale._ T’ terrible Knitters i’ Dent. Slatter, C, slop. “Wi’ jaws o’ yell some durty beuts Pat loft seun in a _slatter_.” _Mark Lonsdale._ The Upshot. Sleekie, or Sleekit, S, sly, smooth. “O we were sly, sly! O, we were sly an’ _sleekit_.” Song. Slipe, C, to slip away, to “hook it.” “_Slipe_, my lad, while thou’s weel. _Slipe_, I say, an’ let neàbody see the’ gang.”—Said to a youth in a row. Slocken, S and C, to slake thirst. “Ha’e ye any clippin’ drink left?” “No!” “Ha’e ye any common yall? No! Ha’e ye any smo’ beer? No! Why than, hang it—ha’e ye any pig-stuff? I mun be _slocken’t_ wi’ summat!”—John Kendall at Hawkshead Hall the day after the sheep-shearing feast. Smaik, S, a small boy, or other small animal. “He’s but a _smaik_, but he’s a man at the books.” Said of a schoolboy. Smittal, C, infectious. “As _smittal_ as t’ Smo’-pox.” Said of a successful male animal kept for breeding purposes. Snape, C, snub, also blight. “Yet tho’ sec bruolliments galwore Oft _snaip’t_ the whyet of our days.” _Stagg._ Auld Lang Syne. Sneck, C, latch. “The Buckabank chaps are reet famous sweethearters, Their kisses just sound like the _sneck_ of a yett.” _Anderson._ Bleckell Murry-Neet. Sneck-posset, C. When a man has the door shut in his face, figuratively or literally, he gets a _sneck-posset_. “Glooar’d at me a bit, an’ than clyash’t dewar i mi feeace——He g’e ma a faer _sneck-posset_.” _Rev. T. Clarke_, Johnny Shippard. Snell, S, cold and cutting. “There cam’ a wind oot o’ the north, A sharp wind and a _snell_.” Ballad—Young Tamlane. Snirrup, or Snirp, C, to curl up the nose, etc. “As seun as she fund I depended on labour, She _snirp’t_ up her nose an’ nae mair leuk’t at me.” _Anderson._ The Lasses o’ Carel. Snirt, or Snurl, C, the sound of imperfectly suppressed laughter. “But seckan toke! nin could tell what aboot, I stop’t my lugs for fear o’ _snurtin’_ oot.” _Graham._ Gwordie and Will. Snod, S and C, smooth, neat.