Guide to darkest Essex




An invaluable guide for those of you that venture to darkest Essex

alma chizzit - A request to find the cost of an item

amant - Quantity; sum total ('Thez a yuge amant of mud in Saffend')

assband - Unable to leave the house because of illness, disability etc

awss - A four legged animal, on which money is won, or more likely lost ('That awss ya tipped cost me a fiver t'day')

branna - More brown than on a previous occasion ('Ere, Trace, ya look branna today, ave you been on sunbed?')

cort a panda - A rather large hamburger

Dan in the maff - Unhappy ('Wossmatta, Trace, ya look a bit Dan in the maff')

eye-eels - Women's shoes

Furrock - The location of Lakeside Shopping Centre

garrij - A building where a car is kept or repaired(Trace: 'Oi, Darren, I fink the motah needs at go in the garrij cos it aint working proper')

Ibeefa - Balaeric holiday island

lafarjik - Lacking in energy ('I feel all lafarjik')

OI OI! - Traditional greeting. Often heard from the doorway of pubs or during banging dance tunes at clubs

paipa - The Sun, The Mirror or The Sport

reband - The period of recovery and emotional turmoil after rejection by a lover ('I couldn't elp it, I wuz on the reband from Craig')

Saffend - Essex coastal resort boasting the longest pleasure pier in the world. The place where the characters from TV's, popular soap opera, Eastenders go on holiday

tan - The city of London, the big smoke

webbats - Querying the location something or someone is. ('Webbats is me dole card Trace? I've gotta sign on in arf hour')

wonnid - Desired, needed. 2. Wanted by the police

zaggerate - To suggest that something is bigger or better than it actually is. ('I told ya a fazzand times already')


Guide to darkest Essex

Guide to darkest Essex

OI OI! this could be andy if ya gonin to Furrock

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Guest: John E. (633 days ago)

PPS: and yes, I DO know about the Bow Bells (Cheapside) tale, but that rule was stretched LONG ago.

Guest: elocutions 4 the chaves (257 days ago)

Latest comment: "reading al diz stuff, i'm completely donald ducked. "
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maverickrazormaverickrazor (631 days ago)

This is quite good in places but falls down a bit here and there. For example someone from Essex who speaks this way is unlikely to use the word lethargic. The phonetics are all wrong too. Nice try.

Guest: John E. (633 days ago)

btw, the "Essex Mob" are from families that were once ensconsed in the East End (and Barking, Dagenham, Ilford, etc) until Hitler moved them on to one side. So rest assured, they are Cockney. PS: also 'white flight'.

Guest: John E. (633 days ago)

Yeah, so? I don't get it. Romford John

Guest: andy (633 days ago)

I find this easier than text talk.

Guest: Albert Prince (634 days ago)

The true cockney's started chattin like this, way before the essex mob.