Category: Word of the Day – S

ETYMOLOGY
– dialect form of snivel-nose (a snotty nose)

EXAMPLE
“…How Dem! a Trub? – go, ye rearing, snapping, tedious, cutted Snibblenose!…”

From: An Exmoor Scolding
By Peter Lock, 1782

ETYMOLOGY
– local variant of squeal

EXAMPLE
“…And to ilk bellow, roust, and roar,
He lustily cried out, encore!
Till echo, for ten miles around,
Did the horrid scoil resound…”

From: The Life, Letters and Poems of George Beattie, of Montrose, 1882
John O’ Arnha”. A Tale