The Foxearth and District Local History Society
Dictionary of Essex/Suffolk words and phrases
Appletite
Appetite
Acrorst
Across
A-riddy
Already
A-stiddy
Instead of
Axe
Ask
Axe me ass
Ask my donkey (Ask a silly question)
Back'us
Back house or wash house
Bettying or Bopping
bobbing up and down
Bor
friend (as in good ol' bor) same as Neigh-bour (near friend)
Buss
Embrace
Cail
To stone (Cailed 'em up the street - stoned them up the street)
Chuch
Church
Clane
Clean
Clapt eyes on
Saw
Clars
Claws (Hands)
Claw 'old on
Catch hold of
Clobber
Clothing
Coad
Cold
Coom
Come
Cop a hoad
Take hold, grasp
Coterage
Small cottage
Crop
Throat (Stuck in me crop )
Curchy
Curtsey
Daint
Dod not
Dannick
Little bread roll
Dawzled
Dazed; half stupified
Decatedly
Decidedly
Dicky
Shirt front: Feeling unwell
Dont fare a hucher
feel ill
Dont mall oot
Do not meddle with it.
Dosselled
Dazzled
Dreffle
Dreadful
Durg
Animal droppings
dung
Enow
Enough
Extry
Extra
Fare
Quite; seems (I fare full that do fare strange )
Fild
Field
Frawn
Frozen (A'm frawn a cold = frozen with cold)
Freshy
Drunk, inebriated.
Frowsy
Slovenly
Futhers
Feathers
Fudder
Further
Garp
stare
Gaze
Picture
Gooun
Going
Greash
Grease
Grut
great
Hal a bit
Certainly not
Haps or Happen
Perhaps
Harnser
Heron
Hazelled
Half dried (referring to washing)
Haysel
Haymaking time
Hid n shoulders
head and shoulders (i.e.bigger)
Hin bud
Hen (bird)
Hingle
Hinge
Hoad yew hard
wait a bit
Holly Billful
very beautiful
Homedod or Hoddermedod
Snail
Hooker
Shepherd
Hool hoss
Stallion
Hoss
Horse
Hoom
Home
Impechivous
Impetuous
jannicking (or Nanniking)
Fooling about: getting in the way
Jar
Jaw
Jaykie
tadpole, young frog
Jelly
Toad
Jowned
Joined
Ketch
Catch (Ketch 'old 'on= Catch hold of)
Kiddler
Muddler
Laten
Brass
Little Egypt
Glemsford (suffolk)
Looker
Overseer
Marn't
Must not
Mawther
Girl or woman
Met
Mate, Friend
Midder
Meadow
Missamedods
Midsummer bugs found under dry manure
Moost on ut
most of it
Mulberry
Large hedgerow Blackberry (as in 'here we go round the mulberry bush')
Nawthen
Nothing
Nit it
Not yet
Oncommon
Uncommon
Oothum
With him
Owd Runny Nose
a scythe
Peggles
Cowslips
Petty
Temper
Prinking
Making oneself smart
Pullicking
Complaining
Rafty
Raw cold
Rainy Bug
Ladybird
Rennie
Small field mouse
Rick
Reach
Riddy on
Rid of
Roorrky
Moorhen
Roudle
Whisky flavoured water
Sad-dy
Saturday
Seal of the day
Greeting-good morning
Scott
Fine or payment (as in Scot-free)
Sheen
Machine
Ship-yd
sheep yard
Siggify
Signify
Snew
Snowed
Sole
Heavy blow (Verb and noun )
Sorft in the hid
simple
Spidgick,Spadger
Sparrow
Spike
Workhouse
Steenk porn
terrible smell
Struck orf
started to walk
Sway
Decision ('e don't care the sway
Influence a decision)
Thus brewun up
Storm approaching
Thusdy
Thursday
Tidy
Quite (A tidy few; tidy bit)
Tiffling
Pottering
Tipney Tauter or Titter me Tauter
See saw
Tissick
Irritating cough
Trav'us
Blacksmith's forge (usually attached to house)
Urchin
Hedgehog
Valeration
Valuation
Wash'us
wash house
Welkuns
wellingtons
Went
Gone ('e shouldn't a went)
Werry
Very
Wholly
Fully
Willer
Willow
Wittles
Victuals
Woodly
Thick headed (as when you have stuffy head cold)
Worch
Throbbing pain
Wornt
was not
Wuld
world
Wus'kt
waistcoat
Wuz
was
Yisd'y
Yesterday