That 1875 dictionary of the Sussex dialect that I mentioned earlier has so many great entries.
Here’s another one, DESZC, D-E-Z-Z-I-C-K. It means a day’s work. So the illustrative sentence they have in this dictionary is, I ain’t done a DESZC for the last six months.
Oh, that’s a wonderful word.
Too bad it’s not allowed in Scrabble.
The double Z, man.
Right?
That’s a winner.
That would be.
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