Page:Glossary of words in use in Cornwall.djvu/479

 118 THE DIALECT Olf Shoon (pronounced shooin), shoes. Chaucer has it. It occurs in Robin Hoodf Fytte iii. ver. 49 : To drawe olf his hosen and hia sAone.* In the early part of this century, about 1815, three young people, Mr. S., Mr. I)., and Mrs. H., were proceeding to Castle >»in. The fentlemen were dressed in Tartan plaids, and the lady wore nankeen oots. The odd appearance of the party attracted the attention of the natives, and on seeing them a young lad exclaimed, in derision of their dress, * Eh ! lads, here's ITreuch a coomin.' Then, catching sight of the boots, * Sitha ! sitha I sho's baat shooinJ* Shoyeller, or Shuffler, a kitchen shovel with holes in to let ashes through. Shrog, a little wood (on a bank side 1). Hall says ' shrubs,* &c. [A wood of small wood, underwood, &c. — W. W. 8.] Sometimes written scrogg. See Johnny o/Braidislie, ver. 11 : And down amang the acroggSf The bonniest chiel that ever I saw Lay sleeping atween twa dogs.' In * Secunda Pastorum ' {2'owneley Mysteriea) : ' I have soght with my doges Alle Horbery ahroges, And of zv hoges Fond 1 hot oone ewe.' Shnbbans, i. e. shoe-bands, shoe-strings ; shoe or boot laces. Shninmaker, pronunciation of shoemaker. Shunks, shanks : a pronunciation not now much used. Shunt. When a wall gives out at the bottom it is said to shunt ; if at the top, then to shutter. Shut (gl. shuot), to get quit of. A man shuts hia brass who spends his money. Shutness, riddance. ' And a good sliutness too.' Shutter, a spendthrift. Shutter, to fall to pieces, especially from the top as a wall might ; to become a bankrupt. A man who slips from a haystack, Ac. ahtUtera oS or down. [All four probably connected with the verb to shoot, — W. W. S.] See Natterin Nafi, ver. 49 : A 'andful of her 'air, An' flittered like a deein' duk An' shutturd aht a' t' chair.'
 * Hobyn commaunded lytell Johan
 * As I came over by Merriemass,
 * An' then shoo rave reit up be *t rooits