skudhelès

Yola

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skʊˈdiːɫz/

Noun

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

• 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