/ˈnɛti/
OriginFrom net (“elegant, neat”) + -y (“forming adjs. of slightly lesser degree”).
- obsolete, rareNeat, well-groomed, natty.
“How prettie, how fine and how nettie,
Good huswife should yettie.”
- Netted: made of or employing a net.
“Ye ought for to keepe them close, till the day haue taken the gellie or netty rime, from the earth.”
- Netlike.
- GeordieAn outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
“Neddy, Netty, a certain place that will not bear a written explanation, but which is depicted to the very life in a tail-piece in the first edition of Bewick's ‘Land Birds’ (1797), p. 285.”
“A line of pit cottages... tiny back gardens with outside lavatories, ‘netties’, some of them emptied twice a week by the council.”
“Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside.”
- GeordieAny other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a lavatory; a toilet.
“Netty, a privy or water-closet... A common name, amongst the working classes... In common use. In my recollection it was looked upon as a euphemism.”
Formsnettier(comparative) · nettiest(superlative) · nettie(alternative) · neddy(alternative) · netties(plural)