To me, with a travelling childhood through England and over seas spiflicating was a word of praise as in: 'We had spiflicating day' used to describe a lovely day out.
'Twitten' to describe an alley or ginnel goes farther than Sussex. In north Berkshire in 1468, yes I mean 1468, the man who was building the house I now live in was up before the manor court for blocking the twitten. An early case of a builder blocking a road with whatever was the 1468 equivalent of a skip!
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