SKIMMER-CAAYKE.—A flat pudding made with surplus dough, eaten with butter and sugar.
SKIMPIN'.—Small, insignificant.
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.
SKIN-DAPE.—Not seriously affecting one.
SKINNY.—Lean, thin.
SKITTLES.—Always played with four large heavy pins, and the wooden ball is thrown and not rolled.
SKITTY.—Not to be depended upon.
Inconstant.
Lively, freakish.
SKRIMPY.—Niggardly, small and poor in quantity (almost similar in meaning to Skrimpy).
SKRUNGE.—To squeeze hardly together.
SKUG.—A squirrel is thus called.
SLAB.—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.—An untidy, slatternly woman.
SLAB.—A low lying strip of land between two hills. Many villages and farms have a "slad."
SLAER, or SLIAR.—A sly look.
