SPAR—White rock ’at glitters an’ glissens i’ t’ sun.
SPLAWDEREN—Ye’ve seen a chap ’at’s bin towtl’d ower an’ his arms an’ legs hev flowen aboot a bit as he was gaan. That’s splawderen.
SPLAWDER—Ta mak a gurt show. Thoo’s neea casion to splawder o’ ower t’ toon talken aboot us gitten a new creddle.
SPELK—A splinter fer brokkun limbs.
SPELSH, SPELSHED—To break or tear off leaving jagged ends. Same as a bough or stick.
SPIT, SPITTEN-IMAGE—He’s t’ spit ov his fadder; aye he’s spitten image ower again.
SPROGUED, SPLANSHED, SPRAIGED, SPLATTERED, SPLODDERED—Ye know what it is to wade about in a wet spot, where long grass, or ling, compels one to lift the foot a good height up each step and every particle of the dignity and poetry of motion disappears from our movements—that’s sproguen, splodderen, splanshen, or spraigen as the case may be. The terms are exactly fitted to the purpose they are used for.
SPRUNG-VEIN—A lump on a vein caused by a blow.
SPEEK-SHAFF—A spoke-shave (hem!)
SPECS, SPENKS, SPENTACLES—Spectacles.