Mash, marsh.
Mean, stingy, ill-natured.
Min’, mind.
Nimepunce, ninepence, twelve and a half cents.
Nowers, nowhere.
Offen, often.
Ole, old.
Ollers, olluz, always.
On, of; used before it or them,
or at the end of a
sentence, as on ’t, on ’em,
nut ez ever I heerd on.
On’y, only.
Ossifer, officer (seldom heard).
Peaked, pointed.
Peek, to peep.
Pickerel, the pike, a fish.
Pint, point.
Pocket full of rocks, plenty of money.
Pooty, pretty.
Pop’ler, conceited, popular.
Pus, purse.
Put out, troubled, vexed.
Quarter, a quarter-dollar.
Queen’s-arm, a musket.
Resh, rush.
Revelee, the reveille.
Rile, to trouble.
Riled, angry; disturbed, as the sediment in
any liquid.
Riz, risen.
Row, a long row to hoe, a difficult task.
Rugged, robust.
Sarse, abuse, impertinence.
Sartin, certain.
Saxon, sacristan, sexton.
Scaliest, worst.
Scringe, cringe.
Scrouge, to crowd.
Sech, such.
Set by, valued.
Shakes, great, of considerable consequence.
Shappoes, chapeaux, cocked-hats.
Sheer, share.
Shet, shut.
Shut, shirt.
Skeered, scared.
Skeeter, mosquito.
Skooting, running, or moving swiftly.
Slarterin’, slaughtering.
Slim, contemptible.
Snake, crawled like a snake; but to snake
any one out
is to track him to his hiding-place; to
snake a thing out is
to snatch it out.
Soffies, sofas.
Sogerin’, soldiering; a barbarous amusement
common among men
in the savage state.
Som’ers, somewhere.
So’st, so as that.
Sot, set, obstinate, resolute.
Spiles, spoils; objects of political ambition.
Spry, active.
Steddles, stout stakes driven into the salt marshes,
on which the
hay-ricks are set, and thus raised out
of the reach of high tides.
Streaked, uncomfortable, discomfited.
Suckle, circle.
Sutthin’, something.
Suttin, certain.
Take on, to sorrow.
Talents, talons.
Taters, potatoes.
Tell, till.
Tetch, touch.
Tetch tu, to be able; used always after a negative
in this sense.
Tollable, tolerable.
Toot, used derisively for playing on any wind instrument.
Thru, through.
Thundering, a euphemism common in New England for
the profane English
expression devilish. Perhaps