| shelve | v. | to slope gradually | ||
| shemozzle | n. | muddle, chaotic state; quarrel, row | ||
| shend | v. | to revile, to scold | ||
| shenship | n. | disgrace, ruin | ||
| shieling | n. | pasture; herder’s rude hut | Scots | |
| shikaree | n. | hired big game hunter (also shikari) | ||
| shindy | n. | ruckus, commotion | ||
| shirr | v. | to poach or bake (eggs); to gather into parallel threads | ||
| shirtwaist | n. | tailored blouse for women | ||
| shirty | adj. | ill-tempered | ||
| shoat | n. | young weaned pig | ||
| shock | n. | group of grain sheaves placed upright in support of each other so as to allow drying and maturing | ||
| shog | v. | to shake or roll from side to side; to walk or move in jerks | ||
| short arms and deep pockets | adj. | miserly | idiom | |
| shout the odds | v. | to talk loudly and boastfully, often in a belligerent manner | British | |
| shrike | n. | any of several species of songbird with strongly hooked and toothed bill, used by some species to impale or rend their prey | ||
| shrive | v. | to impose penance upon; to hear confession of; to make confession | ||
| shufty | n. | a peep, a look (also shufti) | ||
| shuttlewitted | adj. | scatterbrained, flighty | ||
| shy | v. | to throw with sudden or jerky movement | ||
| sickerly | adv. | surely, certainly; assuredly | ||
| side | n. | supercilious attitude | slang | |
| sightholder | n. | bulk purchaser of rough diamonds authorized by De Beers | ||
| silage | n. | ensilage, preservation of undried green fodder in a silo or pit | ||
| silentiary | n. | one who remains silent, esp. as a religious compulsion; historical official of courts who stayed silent | ||
| simon-pure | adj. | entirely pure, authentic, clean | ||
| sine die | adv. | indefinitely, without fixing a date for resumption | Latin | |
| single-tree | n. | crossbar connecting traces to wagon or plow | ||
| singlet | n. | close-fitting woolen undershirt or jersey, usu. sleeveless | ||
| sinicize | v. | to make Chinese in style or form | ||
| sinter | v. | to form or shape metal by heating without liquefaction | ||
| sistrum | n. | ancient Egyptian percussion instrument consisting of metal frame with transverse rods which rattled when shaken by the attached handle | ||
| sit-upon | n. | the buttocks | informal | |
| sizar | n. | undergraduate at Cambridge or Trinity College who received an allowance to help fund his education, and who performed certain menial tasks for the other students | ||
| skainsmate | n. | messmate; fellow, companion | obsolete | |
| skean dhu | n. | small knife worn in the top of the hose of Highland Scots | Scots | |
| skerry | n. | sea-rock covered during high tide, reef | ||
| skew-whiff | adv. | askew, obliquely | ||
| skewbald | adj. | marked with patches of white and brown | ||
| skewiff | adj. | askew, awry, out of line | colloquial | |
| skint | adj. | broke, out of money | British | |
| skip | n. | large bag or basket, often on wheels, frequently used for collecting laundry | ||
| skirl | v. | to shriek; to make a shrill, shrieking sound (on the bagpipes); to play the bagpipes | ||
| skive | v. | to blow off, to shirk | informal | |
| skivvies | n. | men’s underpants | ||
| skivvy | n. | scullion; tight-fitting long-sleeve T-shirt | ||
| slapper | n. | prostitute; woman of bad morals, woman with many sexual partners | slang | |
| slate | v. | to criticize severely | British | |
| slattern | n. | slovenly woman or girl | ||
| slavey | n. | servant, often a hard-worked serving girl |
