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Essex Dialect in the 18th century In 1857 Thomas Wright compiled a dictionary of obsolete provincial words. The table below shows words that Thomas Wright specifically identified with usage in Essex Ails Ears of corn Artnoon Afternoon Bange Light rain Bigge Cows teat Boine Swelling Bonie Blow or wound Bonkka Very large Bonx Beat up mix for batter puddings Bullimong A mix of oats, vetch and peas Busk Lie in sun Cart rake Cart track Chice Small portion Chop Flog Crotch tail Kite Dare To Grieve Dean Din or noise Dogs Dew Doke A small brook or a bruise Dolouring Mournful noise Eel thing St Elmo's Fire Essex stile Ditch Feff To overreach in buying or selling Fimble To touch lightly Finnicks Tawdry dressed woman Furnitade Furniture Ginnick Neat or Perfect Goff A mow of hay Goffer To eat fast Gole Prominent harve A haw Hazely brick earth a loamy soil found in Essex Hazle Stiff as clay Hoap Helped Jice Small quantity Julk Hard blow Martlemas beef Beef dried in the chimney like bacon Mauther Awkward girl Muckinger Handkerchief Muggy Half intoxicated Newing Yeast Nig Small piece Nippet Small quantity Not Well tiled Noteless Stupified Nuzzle Sound of bellows Piggatory Great trouble Sarce Vegetables Scat Scared Scatch pawed Left handed Teuk Redshank Thrap To Crowd Warsley Not much Waste To abate Winnick Suppressed cry
