Lakeland Words / A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as Used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with Illustrative Sentences in the North Westmorland Dialect

by Bryham Kirkby

SCARIFIED—Frightened. Ah was fair scarified when t’ nag ran away.

SCATTER’D—Thrown off.

“Oh! drat it,” cried Frank, leeakin’ back for a secont;

“She’s scatter’t, for suer, dal, it’s just as I reckon’t.”

—Bowness.

SCRAFFLE—Scramble. Hooivver Ah scraffled on ta t’ auld nag back Ah nivver cud tell; we war biath seea flait. A rough bringing up is to scraffle up, and a toilsome, hopeless effort is said to be a scrafflin-on.

SCAR—A brokken bit o’ pot.

SCRAP—Land ’at’s hard an’ dry wi’ t’ druft.

SCRUJE-UP—Sit closer together. Ye mun scruje up an’ mak room.

SCAHLMY—When t’ sky’s varra ower kessen an’ lowering.