• IPA: /nɛd/

ned (plural neds)

1. (Scotland, slang, pejorative, offensive) A person, usually a youth, of low social standing and education, a violent disposition and with a particular style of dress (typically sportswear or Burberry), speech and behaviour.
   • 2007 (Scotland), RecordView in Daily Record, 14 Feb 07, Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, p. 8:

     The mindless behaviour of drunken neds and nuisance neighbours brings misery to tens of thousands of honest folk.

• chav (England)
• charva (Northeast England)
• Scally (Northern England)
• scanger (Dublin/Ireland)
• Senga (Scotland)
• yob, yobbo (England, Australia)
• spide (Northern Ireland)

• IPA: /nɛd/

1. A medieval diminutive of the male given name Edward.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     : Act II, Scene IV:

     But, sweet Ned, - to sweeten the name of Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar

1. Initialism of New English Dictionary
2. Initialism of National Endowment for Democracy