| ravel’t oot | vb | work it out; understand | | |
| reet | | right | | |
| ringle-eyed | adj | wall-eyed | | |
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| sair | | sore | | |
| San’get | pn | Sandgate, a street in Newcastle | | |
| sapling | n | young greyhound | | |
| sark | n | shirt | | |
| schooling | vb | gambling in pitch and toss | | |
| scran | n | food | | |
| scranshuns | n | remnants of batter from frying fish | | |
| see | | so | | |
| shaff | | nonsense; stupid talk | | APW |
| Sheels | pn | North or South Shields | | |
| shouther | n | shoulder | | |
| sic | | such | | |
| sin‘ | | since | phonetic | |
| singin-hinnie | n | cake with currants and butter in it and baked over a fire on a girdle. | | |
| skelp | vb | a sharp slap, cause a rapid movement. In mining, to use a pick in pulling down or hewing coal. | Gae: sgealp – a slap | |
| skemmy | | wild or blue pigeon | | |
| skeul | n | school | | |
| skinch | n | truce | | |
| skite | vb | make a quick exit. | Swe: skutta/ON: skjota – to shoot off | |
| snagie | n | turnip | | |
| sneck | n | door or gate latch. Also used as a verb | (Teu: snacken – capture) | |
| sneck-drawn | adj | narrow minded | | |
| snotter-clout | n | handkerchief | Sax: snytan – nasal fluid | |
| soom | vb | swim | | |
| speaned | vb | weaned | | |
| spelk | n | splinter | | |
| sprag | n | young salmon or cod | | |
| spuggy | n | sparrow | | |
| staith | n | place for storing or loading coal. | Sax: stathe | NCW |
| stally | n | steel ball-bearing much prized in a game of marbles | | |
| stob | n | a short post, a stump, a stake. The term stob is applied to persons of an obstinate, stupid character. | ON: stobbe – the stump of a tree | |
| stot | vb | bounce | | |
| strang | adj | strong | | |
| strite | adj | straight | | |
| stuil | n | stool. | | |
| sud | | should. | | |
| suin | | soon | | |
| swape | vb | long oar at the stern of a keelboat used both as a rudder and a means of propulsion | AS swapan – to sweep | NCW |
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