adj
Stuck in mud, bogged down (Scottish)
v
(transitive, by extension, humorous, nonce word) To cover with hair.
n
(military slang) A wound that is relatively minor, but sufficiently severe that one will be sent to the hospital in England.
n
(dated, informal, US) A large or embarrassing mistake; blunder.
n
(figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
n
(Britain, colloquial) A piece of dried mucus in or removed from the nostril.
n
Shreds and patches of cloth cut off by a tailor when cutting out clothes.
v
(transitive, now Scotland, Northern England) To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.
adj
(Scotland) Synonym of muddy
n
Synonym of slops (“scraps fed to animals; household wastewater”)
n
(Britain, humorous) Christmas.
v
(transitive) To clog with dirt or debris.
adj
(obsolete) curly; curled
n
(slang, derogatory) A decrepit old person.
n
A staff with a crooked head or stem.
adj
(dated) Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.
adj
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
n
(chiefly UK and Ireland, informal) A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
adv
(Cornwall, Devon) tomorrow
n
(dialectal, Northern England) carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
n
(obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
n
A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
v
(Britain, rare) To eviscerate a deer.
adv
So as to graze, or brush closely against.
n
(psychology) Any of a set of invented novel objects used as stimuli in psychological studies of object and face recognition.
n
A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.
v
(Britain) To cover with gunge.
n
A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
n
Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
n
(US, southern) A mudhole.
v
(Northern England, of dust or snow) To drift
n
A system or program (e.g. a campaign or newspaper) considered particularly busy at throwing mud at, that is defaming, a certain target, usually for political reasons.
n
(Australia, slang) A roughly drawn map or set of directions, especially one drawn on the ground.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) mud; sludge
n
Rags from the paper-making process, of lesser quality than fines.
v
Alternative form of pech [(Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.]
n
(obsolete, figuratively) rubbish; trash
n
(slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
n
Alternative form of rag, tag and bobtail [(in the plural) Tattered clothes.]
n
(Scotland) Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
n
The earth thrown up by a burrowing animal.
n
(obsolete) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.
n
(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc..
n
Archaic spelling of roughage. [Originally (archaic), garbage, rubbish, or waste; later (agriculture) the portions of a crop which are discarded, such as husks, stalks, etc.; also, agricultural waste such as weeds.]
adj
Of, relating to, or resembling a rug.
n
A region of dilapidated or former manufacturing concerns.
n
(UK, dialect) soil; dirt
adj
(figuratively, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
n
(in the plural, informal, Canada, US) A large number or quantity.
n
(obsolete) A shard or fragment.
n
(UK dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
n
(UK dialectal, archaic) Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”) [(countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.]
adj
(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Harmful; scathing.
n
(uncountable) Something to be mourned or regretted.
adj
(Britain, dialectal, Scotland) Harmful; scatheful.
v
(intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
n
(slang) The tropical shrub Scaevola taccada.
n
(obsolete) An indurated organ or part, especially a gland.
v
(slang, archaic) To eat voraciously.
n
Obsolete form of scouse (“type of stew”). [A stew associated with the Liverpool area, usually containing (at least) meat, onions, carrots and potatoes.]
n
Obsolete form of scrambled eggs.
n
(UK, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
n
The less desirable part of something.
n
(UK, Ireland, slang) Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.
n
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
n
(US, Appalachia, Blue Ridge) A mush of pork scraps, particularly head parts, and cornmeal or flour, which is boiled and poured into a mold, where the rendered gelatinous broth from cooking jells the mixture into a loaf.
n
wood that is scrap; left-over oddments of wood
n
(uncountable, by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc.
n
(Scotland) The crab-apple tree.
adj
(UK, Scotland, dialect) twisted; stunted
n
(informal) Any scruffy creature.
n
(informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".
adj
Having the characteristics of style and lovable scruffiness combined.
n
A hybrid of Scrum and kanban.
n
(dialectal) Anything small or undersized.
n
Alternative form of scrunchion [(Canada, Newfoundland, usually in the plural) A small piece of pork rind or fatback fried until rendered and crispy.]
n
A scruffy and impoverished individual.
n
(UK, dialect) scruff; nape of the neck
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) rubbish; trash
v
To mark with scunge; to begrime or besmirch.
n
(figuratively) The foul remains of anything adherent.
n
(attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
n
A tuft or clump of grass.
n
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Scabies.
n
(UK, archaic) A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
n
(Britain, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
n
Obsolete form of scruff (“nape of the neck”). [Someone with an untidy appearance.]
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A slovenly farmer.
n
(sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
n
(slang, neologism, cosmetics) The practice of smothering one's face with vaseline in order to moisturize it.
n
(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
n
Someone or something that slushes.
n
Someone who eats snacks.
n
(UK, dialect) Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
n
(UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.
n
(UK, dialect) A dam or mound to stop water.
v
(dated, used in passive) To bog down; to cause to be stuck in mud.
n
(obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
n
The remaining meagre portion of a meal.
n
A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
n
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.
n
(Scotland) Anything frightful or grotesque.
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