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148 SKIMMER-CAAYKE.—A flat pudding made with surplus dough, eaten with butter and sugar.

SKIMPIN'.—Small, insignificant. {{smaller|"I be maain hungry, vor all a gin I vor dinner was a {{italics|skimpin'}} bit o' baaycon."{{ti/e}}

SKIM-PLOUGH.—To plough, so as to move the soil but little in depth. This kind of ploughing is so light as often not to turn the soil over.

SKIMPY.—Stingy, begrudging. {{smaller|"If'e be zo skimpy towards we, none on us wunt gie thee nothun' when us has got ut."}}{{ti/e}}

SKIN-DAPE.{{mdash}}Not seriously affecting one. {{ti/s}}{{smaller|"His trouble be awnly skin-dape, an' he*ll be hiszelf agin in a wake."}}{{ti/e}}

SKINNY.{{mdash}}Lean, thin.

SKITTLES.{{mdash}}Always played with four large heavy pins, and the wooden ball is thrown and not rolled.

SKITTY.{{mdash}}Not to be depended upon.

Inconstant.

Lively, freakish.

SKRIMPY.{{mdash}}Niggardly, small and poor in quantity (almost similar in meaning to {{smallcaps|Skrimpy}}).

SKRUNGE.{{mdash}}To squeeze hardly together. {{ti/s}}{{smaller|"I skrunged the rat atwixt two boords an' zo killed 'un."}}{{ti/e}}

SKUG.{{mdash}}A squirrel is thus called.

SLAB.{{mdash}}The outside irregular slice of timber (inside which is sawn boards or planks) is named the "slab."

Any short piece of thick planking is also called a "slab".

SLACKUMTWIST.{{mdash}}An untidy, slatternly woman.

SLAB.{{mdash}}A low lying strip of land between two hills. Many villages and farms have a "slad."

SLAER, or SLIAR.{{mdash}}A sly look. {{ti/s}}{{smaller|"I zin her gie 'un a slaer as maayde muh think aa 'um had a-zin one 'nuther avoor."}}{{ti/e}}