Shetland Words:S
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- scarf = cormorant
- scooder = singe
- scoom = scum floating on water. (Dir wis a tide scoom fae Klokki Stak ta Colsa.)
- scoot = birds excrement
- scootie aalin/allan = arctic skua
- scorn = mimic
- scow = board from barrel
- screed = large number, flock
- scrit = scrape
- scurm = hard skin formed on liquid, eg paint
- seggie girse = Yellow Iris, Bog Iris (Seg, Seg flower.)
- selkie = seal
- shaald = shallow
- shair = chair
- shalder = oyster catcher
- shappin tree = potato masher
- shantie = chamber pot
- sharg = nag (Da auld besom shargs i my face aa da time.)
- sharn = dung
- shat = passed excrement
- shilpit = sharp tasting
- shün = shoes
- sho = she
- shock = choke
- shockit = choked
- shuul = to empty out with a shovel
- sid = (n) a husk of grain
- sillock = young coalfish
- simmer dim = summer twilight
- simmerin toms = Rope loops mounted at each side of the box-bed, originally to hold sheets, but used by women as stirrups during sexual intercourse. (see also dröltin tree and Tiftin Simmond)
- simmond = rope
- sindry = apart, asunder
- sinknation = curses, multiple swearwords
- sixern = boat, larger that yole
- sjolmet = white marked cow
- skaar = a small quantity
- skadiemans heid = sea urchin (In Lerwick c. 1945: scabbie-man's head)
- skeetik = squid
- skeo = (n) a kind of a stone 'larder' to preserve unsalted meat or fish (before early 19th century)
- skerrie = small islet, rock
- skitter = diarrhoea
- skorie = young seagull
- skroo = corn stack
- skunner = dislike; scoundrel
- skunnert = fed up with
- skurt = bosom
- skurtfoo = gathered in arms
- skyinbow = fiddle tune; also name of fiddle-making company in Vidlin
- skyumpie = rough cut peat, first peat cast, first slice of loaf
- sleekit = sly, cunning (He wis a sleekit deevil.)
- slester = mess, to make a mess
- slicht = calm, quiet sea
- slip = (v) release (Slip da cat furt.)
- slushit = messy ("Slushit craeter")
- smooriekin = kiss
- smore = drown
- smuck = slipper
- snaa = snow
- snurl = twist in rope (Da tedder wis in a snurl.)
- snyirk = to creak
- soe = bait cast on sea to attract sillocks
- solan = gannet
- songie = animal of neither sex, or having organs of both sexes, hemaphrodite.
- sookit = air dried
- soolin = a person or animal that moves very slowly
- spent = fish after spawning
- spindrift = sea spray during high winds
- spoot = razorshell; leap suddenly
- spooie = curlew
- spret = rip, tear (I spret da erse o me breeks.)
- sprickle = wriggle
- spurrietail = earwig
- stank = a ditch
- start = while (See dee in a peerie start.)
- steen/stane/sten = stone
- steenbiter = catfish
- stook = several sheaves of corn set up together to dry
- strood = guy wire supporting mast on sailing boat
- stroopy = penis; water pipe
- sungaets = in the direction of the sun, clockwise, correct way to turn a boat.
- swabie = blackback gull
- swash = splash, large amount of drink (alcohol) (I hed a swash o drink dastreen.)
- swee = burn, singe,
- swinklin = full of liquid, full of drink, (He cam hame swinklin foo.)
- swicked = cheated
- swittle = swill water, play in water
