salt pork pork cured in salt; esp., fatty pork from the back, side, or belly of a hog.
scuppernongs a golden-green grape of the Southern U.S.
Shadrach [Bible] one of the three captives who came out of the fiery furnace miraculously unharmed: Dan. 3:12-27.
snipe hunt practical joke in which the victim is made to sit in the woods with a bag and two sticks in an attempt to capture a creature that doesn't exist.
solicitor in the U.S., a lawyer serving as official law officer for a city, department, etc.
spurious not true or genuine; false; counterfeit.
swept yard In some areas of the South, a swept yard was a sign of a well-kept home. A swept yard was typically kept neat and clean using straw sagebrush brooms.
temerity foolish or rash boldness; foolhardiness; recklessness.
tenet principle, doctrine, or belief held as a truth, as by some group.
thrift any of a genus of dwarf, evergreen, perennial dicotyledonous plants (order Plumbaginales) with narrow leaves and small, white, pink, red, or purplish flowers.
tight [slang] drunk.
Tom Swift boys' pulp fiction serial featuring famed, fictitious inventor and adventurer, Tom Swift.
touchous [Dial.] touchy.
trousseau a bride's outfit of clothes, linens, etc.
umbrage offense or resentment.
Uncle Natchell cartoon mascot for a fertilizer product called Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda; advertisements for this product were in comic book or story form.
