Along with most parts of the UK Essex made constructive alterations to the English language. Some usage further developed on a very local basis. The words below are amongst those to be used by Essex country people. Sadly some of the usage led to their being regarded as country bumpkins by visitors from 'Lunnon' and other urban areas. As many visitors found out this could be a mistake as although perhaps the Essex Men lacked some of the finesse brought with a superior education they more than made up for it common sense and with knowledge of the world in which they lived. For examples of Essex Dialect in actions several peoms written by Charles Benham in Essex Dialect are listed on this site To view the poems click the link       Afeared Scared Ails Ears of corn Artnoon Afternoon Bange Light rain Barmed up Mud Covered Beaver Ploughmans packed lunch Bigge Cows teat Blarned Abusive term equating to bloody Blatherskite Boastful person 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 Cammicks Left over food Cart rake Cart track Chice Small portion Chop Flog Crotch tail Kite Cruppy Bad tempered Dare To Grieve Dean Din or noise Dogs Dew Doke A small brook or a bruise Dreening Wet Soaked by rain Dullerin To cry Eel thing St Elmo's Fire Essex stile Ditch Feff To overreach in buying or selling Fimble To touch lightly Finnicks Tawdry dressed woman Flee to skin Flummergasted Astonished Four way want Crossroads Furnitade Furniture Furriner Person from outside Essex Ginnick Neat or Perfect Goff A mow of hay Goffer To eat fast Gole Prominent Half tidy Good harve A haw Hazel To dry Hazely brick earth a loamy soil found in Essex Hazle Stiff as clay Hoap Helped Hoddemedod Snail Huffers Bread Rolls Jice Small quantity Julk Hard blow Keeping Room Living Room Little Scrailes Naught little children Lunnon London 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 Ollust Always Onsensed Stunned Owd Old Peggles Cowslips Piggatory Great trouble Pitch a pennie pie Somersault Right Matty Look untidy Sarce Vegetables Scat Scared Scatch pawed Left handed Stummick Stomach Taint Isn't Teuk Redshank Thrap To Crowd Tiddy Widdy Small Tip me torter See-saw Warsley Not much Waste To abate Winnick Suppressed cry Wusser Worse Wust Worst