CARRUTH: DIALECT WORD-LIST. 99 



slumps: great quantities. (Clark's Second Hand Catalogue, N. Y.) 



sleep: to give lodgings. I have heard, We can eat and sleep him. 



smoodle: a sycophant. (Kansas University.) Comp., 'swipe.' 



smokewood: dried water-soaked wood used by small boys as 

 substitute for cigars. 



smearcase: a preparation of clabber, often called 'Dutch cheese.' 



snake: to snatch stealthily. 



snum: to vow, as in, Well, I snum. Reported as common among 

 girls. 



snouge: unfair, as, a snouge game. 



snide: inferior, unfair, as, a snide game, a snide watch, etc. 



SO fashion: thus, as, Do it so fashion. 



soap: bribe money in elections. 



sugar: same as soap. 



sugar, (explet): pshaw 1 



split: anything, as. He ran like split, also, lickety split. 



spunky: pouting, incensed. 



sprmKie ( . ^ small number; also a considerable number, 

 sprinkling \ 



stag: masculine, as, A stag-party. 



stag: to go to an entertainment without a lady companion, as, to 

 stag it. 



Stoughton-bottls : an unimpressionable fellow. (From Stough- 

 ton's Bitters, common in the 50's.) 



streak: rapid rate, as. He talked a streak, or more commonly, a 

 blue streak. 



streak: to run, as. He streaked it for home. 



steer: to manage (votes), as, A steering committee, the same as 

 'whips' in Parliament. 



strifiBn, or Strifning: the membrane surrounding the abdominal 

 viscera. (Missouri.) 



swan: to vow, as, in exclamation, I swan! 



swat: to slap or strike, as. Swat him in the eye. 



SUZ, (excl.): me, as in. Dear suz, and Law suz. 



swipe: a sycophant. (Harvard.) 



tacky: not fashionably dressed. 



tewed: harrassed, as, I'm tewed and fretted. 



that; so, as in. Not that far. 



throw over: to 'cut' (an acquaintance). 



throw over: to stop, as, I threw her over, i. e., stopped talking. 

 Common among railroad men; derived from the use of the reverse 

 lever. 



tear-down: to thrash, as. He gave the boy a good tearing down. 



