Essex
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- proper noun
- /ˈɛsɪks/
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Essex
- We plan to visit Essex this summer to explore its coastal areas.
- Essex County
- University of Essex
- Essex Museum
See, before they went to Essex, they had to go to Essex.
- See, before they went to Essex, they had to go to Essex.
- There's a place in Essex called Nailing St.
- So I phoned Essex Drug Squad and told him.
- So he owned this apartment store in Essex, quite a big posh partner store.
- So I applied for Essex Police and and got in.
- One the guns, take it back to Essex, nothing was done about it.
- So if you think that's going to happen, if you're Russell from Essex, you're deluded.
- We're in my house or my parents house in Essex outside of London.
- I come from an ordinary background in Essex Grays.
- I was on an Essex TV show for four years, Yeah.
- So they they loved the idea of doing a sort of West Ham type Essex boys type film.
- I did move out and move to Essex and we did do them in Essex as well.
- And he was originally from Epping in Essex.
- This comes from Rob Hatton who lives in Essex.
- But maybe if someone just copied and pasted him with like an Irish accent or like a proper Essex accent, I'd get on that.
- And he was the one copper in Essex who was dealing with the Bernie Burns murder.
- If you went to Essex, it was just Essex in Ibiza and we hated it.
Examples
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We're from Essex.
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Our journey began when we were stationed at a training camp in Essex, England in the weeks leading up to D-Day.
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We're in my house or my parents house in Essex outside of London.
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I can live in Essex with my Mom.
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I come from an ordinary background in Essex Grays.
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Speaker, in last summer's heat wave, people across Essex witnessed terrible fires.
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I'm from Essex, in case you couldn't tell.
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How's he liking it in Essex?
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In fact, a large proportion of Ipswich's first generation of settlers came from Essex and Suffolk in England.
Academic text (1995) -
I'm from Essex, a beautiful county in southeastern England.
Compounds
- Slur
A negative idea about young women from Essex seen as loud, flashy, and not very smart
Surface Forms
Etymology
Essex comes from the old English words East and Saxons, meaning 'East Saxons'. It was the area where the eastern Saxon people lived, so the county's name means 'land of the East Saxons'.