SHIMM—How weeds out amongst plants.
SHOG—A careless easy gait. He was shoggen away ta t’ market on t’ auld mear.
SHOOP-CHOOP—The seed pod of the rose.
SHROGGS—Rough, woody, stumpy, brushy land.
SHUPPOM, SHIPPON—Coo byre.
SHUT—A relaxed condition of the bowels of calves. That cauf hes t’ shut an’ ye mun war oot they’ve neea manners.
SHILLIES—A bed of small stones on a mountain side. Ah gat in ta a bed of shillies on t’ fell tudder day when Ah was amang t’ sheep, an’ Ah couldn’t git away ato.
SHOOL—A large spade used for conveying the dung out of stables, cowsheds, and so on.
SHOOLEN—The act of lifting with the shool, or spade. Ah’ll tell ye a breck aboot shoolen. Yah day a chap was threshen, an’ t’ hens an’ cocks liukt in as they went by, an’ peckt a bit up. In a bit tweea or three auld ducks waddled in, an’ they went ta wark, but, sez t’ chap, “That widn’t deea, peck as mich as ye like, but neea shoolen’, er oot ye gah.”
SHIVER—Loose stones that get detached from the “screes.”