*Shrovy. Puny, as 'What a shrovy child!' Cp. Shrievy, applied in Hants to stuff with some of the threads pulled out.—S.W. (Deverill.)
Shucky. Rough, jolty: used of roads when the surface is frozen and rutty.—N.W.
Shuffle. To hurry along. 'I wur shufflin' to get whoam avore dree.' Cf. Shuffet.—N.W.
Sinkers. See Sankers.
Slink. Bad diseased meat.
*Sloot. To defraud.—N.W. (Berks bord.)
Slox, Slocks. (2) To wear out clothes by careless use of them. Compare Hock about.—N.W.
*Slut's-farthings. Small hard lumps in badly kneaded bread.
Snake-stones. Fossil Ammonites.—N.W., occasionally still used.
'About two or three miles from the Devises are found in a pitt snake-stones (Cornua ammonis) no bigger than a sixpence, of a black colour.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 45, ed. Brit.
'In this parish [Wootton Bassett] are found delicate snake-stones of a reddish gray.'—Jackson's Aubrey, p. 204.