*Shimmy. Convolvulus sepium, L., Great Bindweed. Reported to us as 'Chemise.'—S.W. (Little Langford.)
Shirp, or Shrip. (1) 'To shirp off,' to shred or cut off a little of anything.—S.W. (2) 'To shrip up,' to shroud up the lower boughs of roadside trees, to cut off the side twigs of a hedge or bush.—N.W.
*Shirt-buttons. Flowers of Stellaria Holostea, Greater Stitchwort.—S.W. (Deverill.)
Shitabed. Leontodon Taraxacum, L., Dandelion (H.).—N.W.
Shitsack, or Shitzack. An oak-apple (H.Wr.). Oak-apple and leaf (S.).—N. & S.W.
Shitsack, or Shick-shack Day. King Charles' day, May 29. The children carry Shitsack, sprigs of young oak, in the morning, and Powder-monkey, or Even-Ash, ash-leaves with an equal number of leaflets, in the afternoon. See Wild Life, ch. v.—N. & S.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)
Shivery-bivery. All in a shake with cold or fright.—N.W.
Shog. To sift ashes, &c., by shaking the sieve.—N.W. (Devizes, Huish, &c.)
Shog off. To decamp in a hurried, stealthy, or cowardly manner (A.B.C.).—N.W.
Shoot, Shute. (1) A young female pig of three or four months old (D.).—N. & S.W. (2) Fore-shoot and Backward-shoot, the pieces of wood immediately behind the coulter of a plough (D.). (3) A precipitous descent in a road; a steep narrow path.—N. & S.W.