Inherited from Old English Sūþseaxan (literally “South Saxons”), which stood for both Sussex and its people.
The town in New Brunswick may have been named after Sussex, New Jersey. The civil parish is named after the town.
Meanings
A British breed of dual-purpose chicken, reared both for its meat and for its eggs.
In the blood of the four groups of birds examined, (viz. purebred Sussexes and Bantams and their reciprocal hybrids) distinct differences were found of the content of DNA and RNA between the Sussexes and the three remaining groups. 1967, Folia Biologica, page 124:
[“Egg Color”:] Cream eggs [“Chicken”:] Polish, Sussexes, Faverolles 2014, The Egg Cookbook: The Creative Farm-to-Table Guide to Cooking Fresh Eggs, Healdsburg Press, →ISBN:
In this group fall the medium-size breeds, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Reds, New Hampshires, Sussexes, Orpingtons, Australorps, and others. 1986, Collier’s Encyclopedia, page 217:
Grouped around the fowl of the second class (see Fig. 3) are such breeds as White Plymouth Rock, Light Sussex, White Cornish, and Kuchinskaya yubileinaya – all meat breeds, apart from the sussexes; […] 1984, Soviet Genetics, page 534:
In the USSR, Sussexes are distributed in the western and southern parts of the Ukrainian SSR. 1968, Ė. Ė Penionzhkevich, Poultry: Biology, Breeds and Breeding, page 192:
Brown eggs come from white Plymouth Rock chickens, New Hampshire chickens, white and dark Cornish chickens, Rhode Island reds, barred Plymouth Rock chickens, and light Sussexes. 1995 November/December, Paula Poundstone, “Letters to Paula”, in Mother Jones, page 79:
Spring and summer were more kind and the flock multipled,^([sic]) although no purebred Sussexes had survived the winter. 1985, Peter Gzowski, The Morningside Papers, McClelland and Stewart in association with CBC Enterprises, published 1986, →ISBN, page 29:
Some of the hybrid layers I would recommend are Black Rocks, Skylines, Maran Cuivres, Sussexes, Blacktails, Gold Lines, and Blue and White Leghorns. 2015, Suzie Baldwin, The Smallholder’s Handbook: Keeping and Caring for Poultry and Livestock on a Small Scale, Kyle Books, →ISBN:
The couple currently keeps seventeen chickens—Araucanas, some Sebright bantams, Silkies, speckled Sussexes, and a Maran—in a coop built by Brian. 2022, Margot Guralnick, Fan Winston, Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home: A Sourcebook for Stylish, Eco-Conscious Living, Artisan, →ISBN:
Inherited from Old English Sūþseaxan (literally “South Saxons”), which stood for both Sussex and its people.
The town in New Brunswick may have been named after Sussex, New Jersey. The civil parish is named after the town.
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A placename. ▸ A former county of south-east England, England, United Kingdom, now divided into East and West Sussex), then bordered by Surrey, Kent, Hampshire and the English Channel.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) A placename. ▸ Ellipsis of University of Sussex.
Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices. 2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025:
(countable, uncountable) A placename. ▸ A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
(countable, uncountable) A placename. ▸ A town in New Brunswick, Canada.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) A placename. ▸ Ellipsis of Sussex Drive and Sussex Street: a street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on which the residence of the Prime Minister of Canada and the Governor General of Canada are located.
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