Essex/Kent Translation Service

This is an invaluable guide…for those of you that venture to deepesr darkest Essex/Kent :stuck_out_tongue:

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 - 1.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”)

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They are superb! :D:D

Excellent :smiley:

They might apply along the Kent/London border, or even as far down as Medway, but certainly not in deepest, darkest Kent :stuck_out_tongue:

Sorry :smiley:

Very good, I noticed the lack of punctuation so that must be where blade gets it from:D

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