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scaipit, sceup, schuif, scoof, scoop, scooped, scoopie, scöp, scuip, scuipie, scuipit, scupe, scuped, skaipit, skeep, skip, skippit, skoopie, skube,
scuip [skøp, C. skɪp, NEC. skep, MN. skip]
n. A scoop, a ladle. The brim of a hat or cap peak.
dim. scuipie A cloth cap with a peak.
v. To scoop.
pt. pp. scuipit n. A peaked cap.
sculdudd$ry, sculdudderie, sculduddery, sculduddry, sculdudry, sculduggery, skulduddery, skullduggery,
sculduddery [skʌlˈdʌdəri]
n. Lewd behaviour, fornication, unchastity. Obscene language or conversation, smut.
scull, skull,
scull [skʌl]
v. To go in a zig-zag manner, walk from side to side. To make a flat stone skip across the surface of water.
scoo, scow, scowe, scull, skill, skoul, skull,
scull [skʌl, N. sku, skʌu]
n. A shallow container or basket.
scullion [ˈskʌliən]
n. A servant of the lowest rank
sculpin, skulpin,
sculpin [ˈskʌlpɪn]
n. The short-spined sea scorpion Myoxocephalus scorpius or dragonet Callionymus lyra.
scult, skult,
scult [skʌlt]
n. A blow with the flat of the hand, a slap, a stroke with a cane or tawse on the hand.
v. To strike with the palm of the hand, to slap, smack, spank.
scoom, scoomed, scoomer, scoomy, scoum, scoumer, scoumit, scoumt, scoumy, scum, scummer, scummin, scummins, skim, skoom, skoomer, skoomi, skum, skumer, skumet,
scum [skʌm]
n. What has been skimmed off, skimmings. A thin coating of frost or ice.
v. To skim.
 
scoum [I. skum]
n. Scum, a thin layer of matter forming on the top of a liquid.
v. To skim, take off scum. To remove the top layer of anything, to scrape off dirt etc. To skim, to graze, touch lightly in passing.
pt. pp. scoumt adj. scoumit Having had the top layer, etc. removed.
 
scoumy
adj. Of the sky: hazy, slightly obscured by clouds
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
scoumer: A hand-net with a circular frame on a long shaft for scooping a salmon out of a fly-net or for catching herring spilling out of a drift-net.
scummer: A ladle or shallow dish for skimming.
scummins: Anything scimmed.
sconcheon, scuncheon,
scuncheon [ˈskʌnʃən]
n. The inner edge of a window or door jamb, the open finished end of a wall.
scrungin, scunge, scunger, scungin, skunge, skunger, skweenge, skweenger, squeenge, squeenger,
scunge [skʌndʒ, skundʒ]
also MN. skweenge [skwindʒ]
v. To prowl about, slink. To sponge or scrounge.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
scunger [skʌndʒər, skundʒər] also MN. skweenger [skwindʒər]: A prowler, a malingerer.
scungin: Prowling, scrounging etc.

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