skudhelès
Yola
editEtymology
editCompare West English scottle (“to shear, cut off.”)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editskudhelès
- knives
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:
- A skudhelès, lhaung roosta, wull glaude leth aam what.
- The knives, that were long rusty, well-pleased let them whet.
References
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68