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OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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sgliùrach (sgliurach, H.S.D.), a slut, gossip, Ir. sgliurach. The G. also means "young of the sea-gull till one year old", when they become sgàireag.

sglongaid, a snot, spit; see glong.

sgob, snatch, bite, sting, Ir. sgoballach, a morsel, peice; also G. sgobag, a small wound, a small dram. Seemingly formed from gob, a bill, mout (cf. O. Fr. gobet, morsel, gober, devour, Eng. gobble).

sgoch, gash, make an incision; for scoth; see sgath.

sgòd, the corner of a sheet, the sheet of a sail, a sheet-rope, M. Ir. scóti, sheets; from Norse skaut, the sheet or corner of square cloth, the sheet rope, a hood, Got. skauts, hem, Eng. sheet.

sgog, a fool, idler, sgogach, foolish, Ir. sgogaire (O'R.), W. ysgogyn, fop, flatterer:

sgòid, pride, conceit, Ir. sgóid; G. sgoideas, pageantry, ostentation:

sgoid, drift-wood (Lewis); N. skiða.

sgoil, school, Ir. sgoil, E. Ir. scol, W. ysgol, Br. skol; from Lat. schola, whence Eng. school.

sgoileam, loquacity; see sgiolam.

sgoilt, split, sgoltadh, splitting, Ir., M. Ir. scoiltim, inf. scoltad, O. Ir. siuscoilt, scinde (St.Gal.Incant.), Cor. felja, Br. faouto, split: *sgoltô, split, root sqvel; Lit. skélto, split, skiliù, split; Norse skiljan, separate, Ger. schale, shell, Eng. shale, skill; Gr. σκάλλω, hoe, σκúλλω, tear.

sgoim, wandering about, skittishness (Hend.); cf. sgaoim.

sgoinn, care, efficacy, neatness:

sgoirm, throat, lower parts of a hill (M'P. Ossian); for latter force, see under sgairneach.

sgoitich, a quack, mountebank:

sgol, rinse, wash; from Norse skola, wash, Swed. skölja, rinse, wash, Dan. skylle.

sgolb, a splinter, Ir. sgolb, M. Ir. scolb, a wattle, W. ysgolp, splinter, Br. skolp: *skolb-, root skel, skol, split (see sgoilt), fuller root skel-ꬶ; Gr. κολοβός, stunted, σκόλοψ (σκόλοπος), stake; Swed. skalks, a piece, also Got. halks, halt, Eng. shelf, spelk (Perrson Zeit.ee 290 for Gr. and Teut.).

sgonn, a block of wood, blockhead; sgonn-balaich, lump of a boy: *skotsno-, "section"; from the root of sgath.

sgonsair, an avaricious rascal (M'D.):

sgop, foam, froth (M'D.):

sgor, a mark, notch, Ir. sgór; from Eng. score, Norse skor, mark, notch, tally (G. is possibly direct from Norse).