264 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Stick up. (1) Add :—In common use at Deverill, S.W. 
(2) To ingratiate one’s self with anyone, but not necessarily with a view 
to sweethearting. S.W. (Deverill.). 
Stocky. Short and thick-set. N. & S.W, 
Stog. To surfeit with food. “He'd eat enough to stog a pig.” S.W. 
Stom achy. Add :—(2) Courageous, plucky. “ He’s a stomachy little chap.” 
Cp—*Amanheis . . . That bhoy has the bowils av a cantonmint av 
Gin’rils.”— Kipling. S.W. (Harnham.) 
*Stoop. Five bundles of straw. See Stipe.  S.W. (Barford St. Martin.) 
Stout. Add :—S.W. (Deverill, etc.) 
Stranger. A smut hanging from the bar of a grate, or a bit of leaf or stalk 
floating on the surface of a tea-cup; both being considered to betoken that a 
stranger is coming to the house. N. & S.W. 
Strapper. Add :—S.W. 
Strawk. To strawk along, or strawk about, to shamble along in an ungainly 
fashion: | N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Stub. Add :—(5) A short quill in a fowl’s skin. N. & S.W. 
Stubbed. Young birds whose feathers are not yet properly grown are said | 
to be “ stubbed.” N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Stun. Add :—S.W. (Salisbury, etc.) ' 
Succoury. adj. Sheltered. ‘“Thuck theer carner’s main succoury o’ vrosty 
nights.” ] 
*Summer-boys. A kindof mirage. S.W. 
“We learned to know the downs under every aspect . . . by sunshine, 
when the mirage, or as the country people say, ‘the summer-boys,’ glinted 
over the hills.” — Diogenes’ Sandals, p. 99. 
“The ‘summer-boys’ danced on the distant hills.’—Zid, p. 31. 
Swank. To swagger. “I zeed un a swanking down street.” S.W. 
Swords. ‘he leaves of Iris pseudacorus, L., Yellow Iris. 8. W. (Deverill.) 
Tack. Add: :—(4) Food in general. N. & S.W. 
*Taffy noodle. A simpleton. (Hist. of Chip.) Also Caffy noodle. 4 
N.W. 7 
Tag. Add :—(4) v. To drag. N.&S.W. | 
Tailings. Add :—Wheat is thus classified by farmers in South Wilts :— 
(a) Best. 
b) Seconds. These two grades are used by the gentry. 
