SWAT—Sit doon. Ye’re i’ neea hurry, swat ye doon an’ hod crack.
SWATTER—To waste time or money and do it in driblets. He’d a conny bit o’ brass frae an auld aunt, but he swatter’d through ’t. He’d swatter aboot an’ nivver buckle teea as he owt.
SWILLY-WHOLS—Pot-whols on t’ moors.
SWANG, SWANGY—A swang, or a wet swangy spot in a field is t’ spot ta late snipes. That is if ye know whar ta liuk.
SWAPE—A thing wi’ teeth in ta scale muck an’ bray clots oot.
SWATTLE—To fritter away time in frivolous dissipation.
SWEET-BUTTER, SWEET-BUTTER-DO—Ye know this; it’s what’s good fer krissenens, an’ seck do’s. Butter wi’ rum an’ sugar tult.
SWEETEN TA YER LIKIN’—Make your tea or coffee as you like it. A Peerith body used ta tell a tial aboot a chap gaan off frae hiam an’ when he co’ back yan o’ t’ things he hed ta tell his mudder was ’at he’d hed some sweeten-ta-yer likin’, an’ supt thirteen laal potfuls on ’t.
SWIJE—A chap wi’ a sair ee said it kittled, an’ it swij’d an’ he’d rub’d it tell he’d frig’d o t’ skin off.
SWINE-GRIUN’D—Siam as “Pig-chafted.”