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[Sussex] Sussex words for mud
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Raleigh Chopper
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It's Leys.
Also just found out that good is Ansum, I thought it was Handsome (as written) it is something they say very often instead of good.
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Is ansum not just an alternative spelling of handsome reflecting the dropped H?
Love a bit of Sussex dialect.
Glomping - that mud that sticks to your boots and builds up with each step.
As to why you need lots of words for mud, because it saves you having to describe each type of mud.
Other great ones:
Flutterby - butterfly
Prickleback urchin - hedgehog
Windhover - kestrel
And I really like using caterwise as an alternative to diagonally.
Glomping - that mud that sticks to your boots and builds up with each step.
As to why you need lots of words for mud, because it saves you having to describe each type of mud.
Other great ones:
Flutterby - butterfly
Prickleback urchin - hedgehog
Windhover - kestrel
And I really like using caterwise as an alternative to diagonally.
Raleigh Chopper
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That's what I thought but in the dialect dictionary it is spelt Ansum meaning good, the best.
Anyway I have hijacked, sorry
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Pint of Ale and a Burger
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I love the old Sussex accent,my grandfather had a very thick Sussex accent and lots of old Sussex words and phrases but I don't recall him having any different words for mud.
Pint of Ale and a Burger
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I was going to post this on the Sussex day thread but I forgot and the next day was no longer Sussex day so I didn't bother.
I often listen to this clip,the chap speaking sounds just like my grandfather.
It's an interesting listen and he reads Kipling at the end.
I often listen to this clip,the chap speaking sounds just like my grandfather.
It's an interesting listen and he reads Kipling at the end.
Baldseagull
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I always associated gurt for big with Somerset, chipper for happy is across the whole south isn't it?
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Gurt lush is still popular in Bristol, though mainly in a humorous way, I think. Reckon chipper spreads further than the south. It's certainly made it as far as the Cambridge dictionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/chipper I just did a search for the etymology - From English dialectal kipper (“nimble; frisky”), of obscure origin. Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”).
Particularly sticky mud up here in Cumbria is described as being 'clarty' (probably the equivalent of clodgy). And if caused by farming or vehicles, it's a right old 'scrow'.
Don't start me on Twittens - I have an unpublished pamphlet yet to be finished (by me) on 'names of lanes' around the country; ginnel, jinnel, lonning, cut, twitten, six-foot, and so on...
Don't start me on Twittens - I have an unpublished pamphlet yet to be finished (by me) on 'names of lanes' around the country; ginnel, jinnel, lonning, cut, twitten, six-foot, and so on...
Worried Man Blues
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It's dark over Will's mother's. I had a Sussex accent for a while, gawn now. Sussex was famous for appalling muddy roads and they reckoned that's why Sussex girls had long legs! Darn't ask me who they were.
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Interesting. Apparently, in Worcestershire they say "it's a bit black over Bill's (mother's).
Worried Man Blues
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That was from my ex Mother in law Bexhill born and bred and still living there!
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Worried Man Blues
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Ha, it says a very old Sussex saying, just like the M I L!
wolfie
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The Twitten used to run through the Grammar School in Dyke Road when I was a pupil - think it's now something to do with crocodiles !
Up this way they're known as "jitties" (with a J)
I’ve definitely heard pug used for mortar when I worked on building sites, “pug up” would be heard shouted by bricklayers when they were low on mortar.
Not heard of any of those. Mud is mud.
However, my dad (originally a Londoner) and granny (Hove, born and bred) had a range of expressions I've not heard elswhere. See if you can work out what the mean (most are threats of minor violence) and whether you have come across them:
"I'll give you a clip round the ear ole"
"You've giving my arse the ear ache"
"Don't come the old acid with me!"
"You don't know poop from clay"
"I'll give you a clip along side"
"Do you want a thick ear?"
Ah, the violent and threatening world of a childhood in Portslade in the 60s
When confronted my a blunt kitchen knife Granny Stat would say, whilst jabbing said knife in the general direction of a small child's face:-
'look, look at this, you could ride bare arsed to Canterbury on this knife'.
Never heard anyone else on the planet ever say that.