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| sad-fishing | n | the practice of writing about one's unhappiness or emotional problems on social media, especially in a vague way, in order to attract attention and sympathetic responses.; [OE words of sad and fishing.]
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| sailstone | n | magnet; [Icelandic 'segull' ~ 19th century back-formation from 'segulsteinn', adapted from Middle Low German 'segelstēn', from segel 'sail' + stēn 'stone']
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| sake | vb | to disagree, argue; argue, disagree [OE sacan, meaning to contend, disagree, or dispute]
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| saltern | n | an area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands; salt works [OED; salt + aern 'dwelling']
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| samefeel | vb | to share in another's feeling or emotions (used with with: "I samefeel with you"; empathize [compound of same + feel]
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| sam | vb | to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean; {{{synonyms}}} [from ME sammen, samnen, OE samnian, ġesamnian (“to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean”), Proto-Germanic *samnōną (“to gather”), Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”)]
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| sandfarer | n | nomad of the desert (dry-land): a bedouin.; herder-wanderer - Mongolian nomad. [compound of sand & farer]
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| sarecraft | n | technology; [from OE searocræft]
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| seaberg | n | rocky sea outcrop; [OE sæbeorg]
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| sea-candle | n | sun.; day-candle, dew-drier, eye of the day, god's candle, king of the day, rodor candle, weather-candle, wyncandle, world-candle. [OE sea & candle.]
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| sea-dust | n | salt.; sodium chloride [OE sea: a division of an ocean or water partially enclosed by land & dust: fine dry, small powdery particles.]
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| searim | n | coast; []
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| skiðe | n | physical harm or damage to a person; injury [OE sciethan]
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| seldseen | adj | rare; seldom, hardly ever seen, uncommon, unfamiliar [CED(Obsolete) OE seldsīne ME seldsene]
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| selfdo-ly | adj | done or happening without any influence from the outside, as if by reflex or
habit, automatic; [compound of self + do + ly]
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| selfdom | n | autism: a developmental disorder of variable severity that is characterized by difficulty in social interaction and communication and by restricted or repetitive patterns of thought and behavior.; [self + dom]
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| self-sparkle | adj | radiance, panache, vim, vitality.; [O.E. self & sparkle]
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| selfstanding | adj | able to work and live alone without outside help; independent [OED]
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| settledom | n | a culture or a civilised societal structure, either as a whole or an individual society; civilisation [neologism, from settle + -dom]
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| settlegang | n | a heavenly body's course of sinking below the horizon; sunset [OE setlgang]
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| shakeneedy | adj | having a very great desire, need; offering so little chance for improvement as to cause despair; desperate [compound of shake + need + y]
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| shakeshaft | n | a argumentative and confrontational person.; take on; come up against [derived from the Old English schakken, meaning to brandish, and speer, meaning spear.]
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| sharder | n | A person who believes in communism; Communist [Share+der]
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| sharedom | n | A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.; communism, marxism [share+dom]
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| shareware | n | a type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience; [OE words 'sheep & fold'.]
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| shedtear | n | one prone to weeping and lamentation. 2. one who cries or sheds tears to take control of a troubling situation.; [O.E words 'shed' & 'tear']
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| shedwise | adj | sagacious intelligent discerning discriminating rational reasonable wise; [OE sceadwis]
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| sheepfold | n | enclosure for keeping sheep; [OED]
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| sheepmonger | n | seller or trader of sheep; [OED]
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| shipshape | adj | neat, orderly; [ship + shape; of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his/her quarters arranged neatly and securely against the inevitable turbulence at sea. It also implies a neat and efficient packing to fit into the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship.]
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| shiðe | vb | to tear down or bring to an end by wrecking, ruining, killing, etc.; destroy [OE sciethan]
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| shiremight | n | power of the local community, self-rule of people free of a professional political class; democracy [shire ‘local community’ + might ‘power’, loanshift from Gk δῆμος ‘rural district’ + κράτος ‘might’]
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| shopwise | n | about or regarding matters or issues at one's place of work.; [OE "shop" & "wise".]
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| short eats | n | a snack; [OE "short" & "eats" from Sri Lankan English.]
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| shredling | n | a minute portion, part, portion, nano-bit.; shreddings, mote, small bite [OE "scread"]
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| shutting-in | n | the evening.; the dusk, nightfall. [OE "shut"]
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| sickhouse | n | building or structure used to care for the sick or injured; hospital, infirmary [neologism, in part inspired by OE lǽcehús "leech-house" (leech=doctor), from sick + house]
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| sidely | adj | sober sedate modest discreet; [OE sidlic]
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| sight path | n | the eyes, vision.; [OE sight & path (a kenning)]
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| silebeam | n | architrave; [sile 'column, pillar, support' (<OE sýl) + beam]
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| sithen [1] | adv | Obsolete word for "since then"; after that, afterwards, subsequently [CED (Obsolete) OE siþþan, ME ſiþen/siþen
† This word can be located at the beginning of the manuscript for Sir Gawain and The Green Knight in Middle English. This is byspled as "Siþen þe ſege ⁊ þe aſſaut watz ſeſed at Troye".]
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'a shoe of silver makes iron soft.' | pvb | a bribe will soften the heart of the most obdurate; [OE]
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| sinwash | vb | cleanse or absolve from sin; [compound of sin + wash]
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| sleep-stealers | n | those things that keep you awake at night, such as stress, medication, a snoring partner etc.; sleeplessnesses [compound of OE wordssleep + stealer]
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| smay | vb | consider think about mediate examine scrutinize; [OE smeagan]
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| snakehead | n | a smuggler, particularly one from China, who specializes in getting people into another country without going through normal immigration channels; people smuggler [OE snaca & heafod; term may come from the "creative smuggling" routes that snake from country to country before entering the target nation.]
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| snake-whisperer | n | one who adopts a sympathetic view of the needs and desires of the snake.; horse-whisper; dog-whisperer, [Old English : snake & whisperer; by analogy with 'horse-whisper' A 33-year-old Malaysian firefighter who had earned the name the “snake whisperer” died Friday, a few days after he was bitten by his pet cobra.]
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| soom | n | agreement; [Old English "som", meaning agreement, somewhat linked to "seem"]
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| soot | n | a black carbonaceous substance or deposit consisting of fire particles formed by the combustion of coal, wood, oil or other fuels; coom, smut [OE sot]
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| soot-dew | n | a black fulginous grime coating plants and buildings.; coom, smut [OE sot and "dew"]
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| sooth | n | true; fact, legitimacy, reality [OED (Archaic) Proto-Germanic ᛉᚨᚾᚦᚨᛇ (sanþaz), OE ſoþlic/sōþlīċ & ſoþlice/sōþlīċe (sōþ + -līċ) , ME ſooþ or sooþ. Cognates with Old Saxon sōð, Old Norse sannr (ᛌᛆᚿᛧ/ᛋᛅᚾᛦ) and saðr (ᛌᛆᚦᛧ/ᛋᛅᚦᛦ, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃]
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| soothfather | n | God, King of Truth and Justice; All-mighty, Heavenly Father, Drighten, []
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| soothly | adv | in truth; in sooth,verily, truly, legitimately [same as sooth]
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| sop in the pan | ' | french toast.; [O.E]
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| so-so-ish | adj | indifferent, passable, of indifferent quality or performance; mediocrity [OE: "So-so": fair & "ish" - inclined.]
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| Soul: One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul yet no one comes to sit by it. | phr | an expression of a lovelorn and lonely Vincent Van Gogh.; [O.E]
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| soul scot | n | a due paid on behalf of a deceased person to the church of the parish to which he belonged; mortuary; death duty; deadhouse [OE sawol, "soul" & scet, "a payment"]
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| soul thief | n | lucifer, old sooty, and all the false prophets who seek to rob others of their soul and spirit; Satan, shuck [OE sawol, "soul" & thief, "a robber"]
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| soul whisperer | n | one who cares for the soul and the eternal life of others.; clergy (collectively); proselytiser. [OE sawol, "soul" & whisperer, "a carer"]
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| spelk | n | a surgical splint; a splinter or chip, a small strip of wood; a thatching rod; support, slip of wood, cleft off [archaism, from OE spelc]
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| spinse | vb | to live as a spinster (temporarily), of married woman or one soon to be married; [backformation of 'spinster']
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| sporthouse | n | A sports facility with tiers of seats for spectators.; stadium, arena [sports + house]
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| sprout-month | n | the second month of the year (so called because the cabbages begin to sprout); February [OE, from Sprote-Kalemonath]
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| stalworth | adj | steady, strong, serviceable; [OED; <OE stælwirþe]
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| stepmeal | adv | by degrees, gradually; [OE stæpmælum]
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| sunny-brained | adj | optimistic; rainy-brained (antonymn) [neologism, from sunny + brain]
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| swarm theft | adj | where large groups of young people enter an electronics store, rip products from display units and flee.; [OE swarm & theft]
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| "put the Sweats on" | phr | make someone anxious, nervous, apprehensive; [O.E]
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| swordnithler | n | foe armed with a sword; [<OE sweordġenīðla) pl: swordnithren (<OE sweordġenīðlan)]
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