S
Sack – white wine, probably cheap
Scold – noisy, arguing person
Score – twenty (four score and seven equals 87)
Scurvy – wretched
Several – separate, distinct
Shamefaced – ashamed
Shrew – mean, scolding woman, ill-tempered
Shrive, Shrift – religious confession
Shun That – ignore
Simpkin – simpleton
Sirrah – man, sir, boy, used when addressing someone under you in authority, also ‘oh, man!’
Sith – since
Slug-A-Bed – lazy, sleepy
Small beer – inferior beer, persons or matters of no importance
Smellfeast – parasite, mooched
Smite – strike, hit
Smith – metalworker
Sodiares – armed men in any group
Soft! – exclamation of surprise, ‘wait a minute!’
Solemnity – peacefulness, respectability
Solemnities – ritual celebrations (more formal than fun)
Somewhen – at an indefinite time
Sooth – truth
Soother – flatterer, yes-man
Sovereign – leader who answers to nobody
Sovereignty – independence, leader’s control, a person’s control over him / herself
Spado – eunuch
Spintry – male, homosexual prostitute
Starve lackey – miserly pretentious gallant
Steal, Steal Away – sneak out quickly, to hide
Steward – someone who fulfills an office which is rightfully the office of someone else who cannot do the job him / herself, such as an uncle overseeing the realm for an underage king
Sue – to make an appeal (the appeal is a suit)
Suitor – a man hoping to marry a certain woman
Swag – big, blustering man
T
Tapster – keeper of an ale house
Tarry – wait
Tassel – noble gentleman
Thick-eared – unwilling to listen
Thence – from there, from then on
Thine – yours
Thither – over there
Thou , Thee, Ye – you (informal, casual)
Thy – your
Tidings – news
To The Purpose – on topic, constructively, toward a goal
Tod – fox, crafty person
Tosspot – drunkard, alcoholic
Treble – triple
Trencherman – hearty eater
Trittle trattle – idle talk, gossip
Troth – truth, truly, also By Troth, By My Troth – truthfully (or a vow)
Tut – hmphf
Twain – two
Twigger – prolific breeder, lascivious person
U
Undone – ruined
Uglisome – ugly
Uttermost – farthest
V
Verily – truthfully, truly, indeed
Virtue – can refer to a woman’s virginity
Visage – face, appearance
W
Want – need, lack, to be without
Wanton – childish, playful, undisciplined, sexually unrestrained (especially women)
Wench – girl, young serving woman
Well met – hello
Whence – where, from where
Wherefore – why (NOT ‘where’), to what end
Whereto – to which
Whither – where, to where, to whatever place
Whoreson – son of a whore, also used against objects (Whoreson cup!)
Will – desire
Worthy – valuable person
Withal – in addition, all together, with
Woe – sadness, misery
Wont – used to, likely to
Woo – date, flirt with, seduce, win over
Wot – to know, learn, be told
Would That, I Would – if only, I wish
Wretch – miserable despicable person
Wrought – provided
Y
Yaud – old, worn out mare, strumpet
Yaudson – son of a whore
Yea – yes
Yon, Yonder – over there
You – formal, for strangers
Your Part – your opinion, point of view, your sake
Z
Zounds, ‘Swounds – I swear (literally ‘by His wounds’)
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Raymond Towers 