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The name of an English county, occurring attrib. in Essex board (see quot. 1933); Essex calf, properly a calf reared in Essex, but often used as a contemptuous designation for the natives of that county; hence, punningly, † Essex-growth, growth in the ‘calf’ of the leg; Essex pig (also Black Essex and absol.), a pig of a kind bred originally in Essex. Hence † ˈEssexed a.
1573G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 135 Will you haue all in a worde and a halfe, Foes must be frende, quoth an Essex kalfe. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 165 A good Legge is a great grace if it be discreetly essex'd in the calfe, and not too much spindled in the small. 1659Lady Alimony v. v. in Hazl. Dodsley XIV. 361 You would wish that his puny baker-legs had more Essex growth [i.e. more calf] in them. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 497 A Cumberland cow may be bought for the price of an Essex calf in the beginning of the year. 1838Penny Cycl. X. 19/2 Essex has been long noted for a superior breed of pigs... The common Essex pigs have long ears. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 365 Varieties of the Domesticated Hog..Native—Berkshire, Essex, York, and Cumberland. 1877F. D. Coburn Swine Husbandry 83 The Essex are so very similar to the Suffolk, in nearly every respect except color... Their skin, from its color, affords them one advantage over the Suffolks. 1897S. Spencer Pigs i. 15 The Small Black or Suffolk, or again, as it is styled in the States, the Essex,..and a few other breeds brought the Small Black pig within measurable distance of perfection. 1906J. Long Bk. Pig (ed. 2) i. 6 (caption) Neapolitan..a black race of pigs..crossed with the old Black Essex with excellent results. Ibid. 7 The Essex and the Dorset..although still recognized by farmers and breeders in their particular districts, are not recognized by experts and the agricultural societies as special breeds. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXI. 595/1 The Small Black or Black Suffolk was produced from the old Essex pig by crossing with the Neapolitan. 1933C. W. Glover Pract. Acoustics for Constructor 429 Essex Board... Composition—compressed fibre in plies, bound together by strong, fire-resisting cement. 1954I. Murdoch Under Net xii. 170 It's only made of plastic and Essex board. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 85/1 Demand was keen for all four breeds—Large Whites, Essex, Wessex Saddlebacks and Landrace.
Add:2. Special Combs. Essex girl Brit. derog. [after *Essex man below], a contemptuous term applied (usu. joc.) to a type of young woman, supposedly to be found in and around Essex, and variously characterized as unintelligent, promiscuous, and materialistic.
1991‘R. Leigh’ & ‘B. Wood’ Essex Girl Joke Bk. Foreword, Essex girls have been with us since Roman times. Perhaps the most famous was Boadicea... This meisterwork [sic], drawing on both legend and contemporary reality, faithfully records the language, philosophy and iconography of Essex girl. 1991Independent 1 Nov. 3/1 How does an Essex Girl turn on the light afterwards? She kicks open the car door... Essex Girl jokes are told on the radio; they are faxed around between offices. 1992Practical Fishkeeping Apr. 142 It was soon obvious I had a blue-green algae problem. The stuff spreads faster than an Essex girl joke in a bar full of salesmen. 1993Independent 26 Mar. 22/6 You can parade in shiny and pricey skin-tight leggings. The look can be jazzed up with Essex-girl gold jewellery for weekends.
Essex man Brit. derog., a term used to denote a supposed new type of Conservative voter, to be found esp. in London and the south-east of England in the late 1980s, typically (esp. contemptuously) characterized as a brash, self-made young businessman who benefited from the entrepreneurial wealth created by Thatcherite policies: cf. Selsdon man n.
1990Sunday Tel. 7 Oct. 23/1 The mass of the tribe has changed: the life and soul of the new Conservative Party, and the bedrock of its support, is Essex man. Ibid., Essex man does not exclusively live in Essex; for spiritual purposes, Essex is to be found all over the newly affluent parts of the outer London suburbs. 1991Times 23 Nov. (Sat. Rev.) 52/2 He belongs to the Thatcher era, Essex Man without the boorishness or conspicuous displays of self-earned money. 1992New Statesman & Society 17 Apr. 22/3 The race is on to see which party adopts that credo as its own. Don't worry. Enough Essex men and women will vote for it when it's on offer. 1994Guardian 11 Jan. i. 16/8 Essex Man has returned to his two-up two-down in Billericay and loadsamoney has been silenced under loadsadebts. |