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

STERICS—Hysterics.

STINKEN-ROGER—Ye’ll find it i’ t’ garden.

STINT—A given quantity. A chap hed chang’d t’ coo diet an’ was weighin t’ butter ta know t’ effect. “Weel diun, dockens an’ nettles,” he sez tul hissel, “t’ auld stint.”

STOMACH—Appetite. Ah’ve neea stomach fer nowt. Ah ca’t stomach fat meat, ato’.

STOOR—Ye’ll mappen find some aboot March.

STAP—Round in a ladder, or stee.

STEND—A stick to hod a stuck pig oppen tell it sets.

STOOR AN’ DRIFE—small driven snow. Seek a neet! Stoor an’ drife fit ta blind yan.

STRACKLIN—A bad ’un.

STREEN—Strain as through a syle. Also to relate how the milk comes from the udder without effort when over full. Also the action of milking as it streens from the teats to the vessel when properly performed.