Long Island Coastal Homes

I recommend that you speak each phrase or word out loud before reading the translation which I have supplied:

alma chizzit – A request to find the cost of an item: how much is it?

amant – Quantity; sum total (’Thez a yuge amant of mud in Saffend’): amount

assband – Unable to leave the house because of illness or disability: housebound

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

branna – More brown than on a previous occasion (’Ere, Trace, ya look branna today, ‘ave you been on sunbed?’): browner

cort a panda – A rather large hamburger: quarter pounder

Dan in the maff – Unhappy (’Wossmatta, Trace, ya look a bit Dan in the maff’): down in the mouth

eye-eels – Women’s shoes: heels

Furrock – The location of Lakeside Shopping Centre: Thurrock

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’): garage

Ibeefa – Balaeric holiday island: Ibiza

lafarjik – Lacking in energy (’I feel all lafarjik’): lethargic

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

paipa – The Sun, The Mirror or The Sport: newspaper

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’): rebound

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: Southend

tan – The city of London, the big smoke: town

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

wonnid – Desired, needed or Wanted by the police: wanted

zaggerate – To suggest that something is bigger or better than it actually is. (’I told ya a fazzand times already’): exaggerate

I’m a working class brummy ass,my cousins say jaouce (as in juice)

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