/ˈnɛdi/
OriginFrom Ned + -y, Ned being a diminutive of Edward.
- A donkey or ass.
- Australia, UK, slangA horse, especially a racehorse.
“Riding overland from Sydney to Brisbane, along the beautiful North Coast district of New South Wales, I tied my neddy up on the roadside and investigated a bark-shanty some little distance off in the ”
“1932, Ion Idriess, The Desert Column, extracted in 2006, Rex Sadler, Tom Hayllar, In the Line of Fire: Real Stories of Australians at War, from Gallipoli to Vietnam, page 61,
Some of the boys whipped ”
“From my uninformed reading of cycliterature (and other stuff), if you are a mainly short-twitch muscle type - a sprinter - then your natural cadence will be higher that^([sic]) if you are a mainly lon”
- Australia, in-plural, slang, with-definite-articleThe horse races.
“He′d usually be there at the same place most Saturdays and we ended up sharing a beer talking about the neddies. It just grew from there. I′d nod at him; ask him how he was going. We′d talk racing, ha”
- Australia, colloquial, plural-normally, slangHorsepower.
“Weird as it sounds, it was because you weren't going fast enough :-) I've found that if you wick it up too much exiting a curve you tend to do one of those feet off the pegs numbers. Fun, huh? Otoh, i”
“No chance in hell, even if it was a Gurney Eagle engine. The only way you can get those sort of neddies out of a 302 Windsor would be boost.”
- An idiot; a stupid or contemptible person.
“1967, Royal Aero Club (Great Britain), Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom, United Service and Royal Aero Club, Flight International, Volume 91, page 496,
The trouble is that the neddies in the Boar”
““The neddies might call it a machine. They might think you guilty of machinism.”
“Hang the stupid neddies!” Kieron carefully loosened the mooring, and the balloon rose.”
- obsolete, slangA cosh.
“[…] it was Dan Mayne who broke his skull with a "neddy."”
- A diminutive of the male given name Edward.
Formsneddies(plural) · Neddie(alternative)