skudhelès

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Etymology

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Compare West English scottle (to shear, cut off.)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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skudhelès

  1. 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

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  • 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