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 guileful fellow. Universal all over the South and Middle. Irish slíghbhín, same sound and meaning; from slígh, a way: binn, sweet, melodious: 'a sweet-mannered fellow.'


 * Slewder, sluder [d sounded like th in smooth]; a wheedling coaxing fellow: as a verb, to wheedle. Irish sligheadóir [sleedore], same meaning.


 * Sliggin; a thin flat little stone. (Limerick.) Irish. Primary meaning a shell.


 * Sling-trot; when a person or an animal is going along [not walking but] trotting or running along at a leisurely pace. (South.)


 * Slinge [slinj]; to walk along slowly and lazily. In some places, playing truant from school. (South.)


 * Slip; a young girl. A young pig, older than a bonnive, running about almost independent of its mother. (General.)


 * Slipe; a rude sort of cart or sledge without wheels used for dragging stones from a field. (Ulster.)


 * Slitther; a kind of thick soft leather: also a ball covered with that leather, for hurling. (Limerick.)


 * Sliver; a piece of anything broken or cut off, especially cut off longitudinally. An old English word, obsolete in England, but still quite common in Munster.


 * Slob; a soft fat quiet simple-minded girl or boy:—'Your little Nellie is a quiet poor slob': used as a term of endearment.


 * Sloke, sloak, sluke, sloukaun; a sea plant of the family of laver found growing on rocks round the coast, which is esteemed a table delicacy—dark-coloured, almost black; often pickled and eaten with pepper, vinegar, &c. Seen in all the Dublin