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