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skit
n.
5< dial., v., to be skittish, taunt, prob. < Scand var. of ON skjbta, SHOOT6
1 [Now Rare] a taunt; gibe
2 a short piece of satirical or humorous writing
3 a short, comic theatrical sketch
skua
n.
5ModL, adapted (c. 1604) < Faroese skdgver < ON skdfr, tuft, sheaf (akin to SHOP)6
1 a large, brown-and-white, predatory shorebird (Catharacta skua, family Stercorariidae) found in cold seas They eat penguin eggs and chicks.
[Brit.] JAEGER (sense 2)
skycap - the guys at airport who want to carry your bags for a tip.
skydiving - you jump out of a plane and hope your parachute opens and you don’t break legs landing.
skyjack , skylight,
slake
vt.
slaked, slak4ing 5ME slakien < OE slacian < sl+c, SLACK16
1 to allay or make (thirst, desire, etc.) less active or intense by satisfying; assuage; satisfy
2 to cause (a fire) to die down or go out
3 to produce a chemical change in (lime) by combination with water !slaked lime is calcium hydroxide"
4 [Obs.] to lessen, reduce, or relieve
5 [Obs.] to lessen the tension of
vi.
1 to become slaked or undergo slaking, as lime, thirst, etc.
2 [Archaic] to become less active or intense; slacken
slangkop - a famous lighthouse
Slangkop is the tallest cast-iron tower on the South African coast. Standing 33 metresimages/slangkop_02_bg.jpg
images/slangkop_02_bg.jpghigh, the tower looks out over the surfers, fisherman and divers in the little village of Kommetjie. Over the years it has served its purpose steering ships around the dangerous rocks and hidden reefs.
slanguage - a useless coinage = slang
Slargando (slar-GAHN-doe) [It.] A directive to perform a certain passage of a composition
with a slower tempo, to gradually slow down. Dictionary Home.
www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/texts/Slargando.html
slaughterous, slavish, slavishly, slender, slick,
slickenside
n.
5dial. slicken, var. of prec. + SIDE6 Geol. a smooth, polished rock surface produced by friction, pressure, or cleavage
slimy, slipstream, slither,
sloe
n.
5ME slo < OE sla, akin to Ger schlehe, Russ & OSlav sliva, plum: see LIVID6
1 BLACKTHORN (sense 1)
2 the small, blue-black, plumlike fruit of the blackthorn
3 any of various wild plums
sloeberry, slogan
sloop
n.
5Du sloep < LowG sluup < slupen (akin to OE slupan), to glide: for IE base see SLIP36 a fore-and-aft-rigged, single-masted sailing vessel with a mainsail and a jib
slough 1 pronounced sluff
n.
5ME slouh, akin to Ger schlauch, a skin, bag < IE base *sleub3, to glide, slip > Latvian sl‘uxGt, to slide6
1 the skin of a snake, esp. the outer layer that is periodically cast off
2 any castoff layer, covering, etc.: often used figuratively
3 Med. a mass of dead tissue in, or separating from, living tissue or an ulceration
vi.
5< the n.6
1 a) to be shed, cast off, or discarded; come off b) to drop off; become fewer or less
2 to shed skin or other covering
3 Med. to separate from the surrounding tissue: said of dead tissue Often with off
vt.
1 to shed or throw (off) as or like slough; get rid of
2 Bridge to get rid of (a card); discard
slough over to gloss over; minimize
slough$y
adj.
slough 2 pronounced to rhyme with allow for def. 4, otherwise to rhyme with “boot”
n.
5ME slowe < OE sloh, akin to MLowG slbch, swamp < IE base *sklck, wet > SLACK36
1 a place, as a hollow, full of soft, deep mud
2 5after Slough of Despond, a deep swamp in Bunyan‘s Pilgrim‘s Progress6 deep, hopeless dejection or discouragement
3 moral degradation
4 a swamp, bog, or marsh, esp. one that is part of an inlet or backwater
slough$y
adj.
slovenly
adj.
3li[er, 3li[est
1 characteristic of a sloven
2 careless in appearance, habits, work, etc.; untidy; slipshod
adv.
in a slovenly manner
slov4en[li[ness
n.
sluice rhymes with “juice”
n.
5ME scluse < OFr escluse & LL exclusa < fem. pp. of L excludere, to shut out, EXCLUDE6
1 an artificial channel or passage for water, having a gate or valve at its head to regulate the flow, as in a canal or millstream
2 the water held back by or passing through such a gate
3 a gate or valve used in opening or closing a sluice; floodgate: also sluice gate
4 any channel, esp. one for excess water
>5 a sloping trough or flume through which water is run, as in washing gold ore, carrying logs, etc.
vt.
sluiced, sluic4ing
1 to draw off by or as by means of a sluice
2 a) to wash with water flowing in or from a sluice b) to wash off with a rush of water !to sluice a deck with hoses"
>3 to carry (logs, etc.) in a sluice
vi.
to run or flow in or as in a sluice
slurp - rudely noisy intake of beverages
slurry
n.,
pl. 3ries 5ME slory < slore, thin mud < MDu, akin to SLUR6 a thin, watery mixture of a fine, insoluble material, as clay, cement, soil, etc.
slurvian
“According to Lederer, we speak Slurvian, not English. There is some evidence that English has always obscured the unstressed vowels. So it may be difficult to find an English dialect that is distinct from Slurvian. “
smileless, smirch, smithereens, smoothbore, smuggleable,
snaffle
n.
5short for snaffle piece, prob. < Du snavel, horse‘s muzzle < ODu *snabel, dim. of *snabbe, bill of a bird, akin to Ger schnabel: see SNAP6 a bit, usually light and jointed, attached to a bridle and having no curb
vt.
3fled, 3fling
1 to fit with or control by a snaffle
2 [Brit., etc. Colloq.] to purloin or snitch
snaggletooth, snakily, snazzy, sneeze, sniperscope, snipsnapsnorum,
snook 1
n.,
pl. snook or snooks 5Du snoek, pike < MDu snoec, akin to ON snokr, small shark & OE snacc, small vessel6 any of a family (Centropomidae) of percoid fishes of warm seas; esp., a large game and food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) of the tropical Atlantic
snook 2
n.
5< ?6 [Chiefly Brit., etc.] the gesture of thumbing one‘s nose in defiance or derision Chiefly in cock a snook at to indicate contempt for by this gesture
snooty, snort, snowdrift
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In reply to:
slough 2 pronounced to rhyme with allow for def. 4, otherwise to rhyme with “boot”
n.
5ME slowe < OE sloh, akin to MLowG slbch, swamp < IE base *sklck, wet > SLACK36
1 a place, as a hollow, full of soft, deep mud
2 5after Slough of Despond, a deep swamp in Bunyan‘s Pilgrim‘s Progress6 deep, hopeless dejection or discouragement
3 moral degradation
4 a swamp, bog, or marsh, esp. one that is part of an inlet or backwater
Having spent part of my life living in Stoke Poges, near Slough (for pronunciation see Sir John Betjeman's poem at http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/bigread/bigread_betjeman.shtml),I think I would use that pronunciation for all of the above. It would never have occurred to me to rhyme slough in any sense with boot.
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Dear Bingley: an officer in my Army unit was Major Plough.
Pronounced "plew". Hostess in my college dorm was Mrs.Clough. Pronounced "cluff".
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