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. 



Stomachy. Add .—(2) Courageous, plucky. " He's a stomachy little chap." 

 Cjp. — " A man he is . . . That bhoy has the bowils av a cantonmint av 

 Gin'rils."— Kipling. S.W. (Harnham.) 



*St00p. Five bundles of straw. See Stipe. S.W. (Barford St. Martin.) 



Stout. Add .—S.W. (D everill, 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.) 



Stuil. Add —S.W. (Salisbury, etc.) 



SuCCOUry. adj. Sheltered. "Thucktheer earner's main succoury o' vrosty 

 nights." 



Summer-boys. A kind of 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." — Ibid, p. 31. 



Swank. To swagger. " I zeed un a swanking down street." S.W. 

 Swords. The leaves of Iris pseudacorus, L., Yellow Iris. S.W. (Deverill.) 

 Tack. Add .—(4) Food in general. N. & S.W. 



^"Taffy noodle. A simpleton. (Hist.of Chipp.) Also Caffy noodle. 



N.W. 



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. 



