"hot it over the fire" innardly – to talk innardly is to mumble leastways – otherwise lief – rather, "I'd lief not" lippy – rude market fresh – drunk messengers – small clouds (also called "water dogs") middlin – reasonable or average mixen – a heap of dung or soil mothery – mouldy notation – making a fuss nurt – a verb meaning to entice ornary – being unwell (the word means "ordinary") peart – brisk or lively picksome – pretty or dainty platty – uneven quirk – a faint noise indicating fear runagate – good for nothing sauce – vegetables, e.g. "green sauce", pronounced "soss" scrow – a verb to scowl shatter – sprinkling shifty – untidy shuckish – unsettled, showery weather snob – shoemaker spoon meat – soup statesman – landowner stood – stuck swimy – giddy the smoke – London tidy – adjective meaning good or well timmersome – timid uppards – towards London or in the north venturesome – brave welt – scorched wift – quic Sussex In addition to the above features, namely rhoticity, the traditional Sussex accent showed certain other features, like an extremely narrow vowel and th-stopping. Reduplicated plural forms were a grammatical feature of the Sussex dialect, such as ghostses in place of the standard English ghosts. Many old Sussex words once existed, thought to have derived from Sussex's fishermen and their links with fishermen from the coasts of France and the Netherlands. A universal feminine gender pronoun was typical, reflected in a joking saying in Sussex that 'Everything in Sussex is a she except a tomcat and she's a he.' See also South African English Australian English Zimbabwean English New Zealand English Falkland Islands English Regional accents of English References External links English (Southern England) DoReCo corpus compiled by Nils Norman Schiborr. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations. English language in England .