allows), opines; _zunce_, since; _vust meyad_,
first made; _keeas_, case; _lucky_, look ye!
SOUTHERN (Group 7): EAST SUSSEX.
The following quotations are from the _Dictionary of the Sussex
Dialect_, by the Rev. W.D. Parish, Vicar of Selmeston; E.D.S. 1875.
The Glossary refers rather to E. than to W. Sussex, Selmeston being
between Lewes and Eastbourne.
_Call over_, to abuse. "He come along here a-cadging, and fancy he
just did call me over, because I told him as I hadn't got naun to
give him." (_Naun_, nothing.)
_Clocksmith_, a watchmaker. "I be quite lost about time, I be; for
I've been forced to send my watch to the clocksmith. I couldn't make
no sense of mending it myself; for I'd iled it and I'd biled it, and
then I couldn't do more with it."
_Cocker-up_, to spoil; to gloss over with an air of truth. "You see
this here chap of hers, he's cockered-up some story about having to
goo away somewheres up into the sheeres; and I tell her she's no
call to be so cluck over it; and for my part I dunno but what I be
very glad an't, for he was a chap as was always a-cokeing about the
cupboards, and cogging her out of a Sunday.
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