English
neddy
see also: Neddy
Pronunciation Noun

neddy (plural neddies)

  1. A donkey or ass.
  2. (Australia, slang) A horse, especially a racehorse.
    • 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bWZKwB-EDfYC&pg=PA61&dq=%22neddies%22+horse+OR+racing+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VDG-T8HSIvHKmQWwrYUl&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22neddies%22%20horse%20OR%20racing%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 61],
      Some of the boys whipped off their hats and laughingly smacked their neddies′ rumps, for we hated using spurs on the poor thirsty beggars.
  3. (Australia, slang, in the plural, with "the") The horse races.
    • 2010, Peter Klein, Silk Chaser, Pan Macmillan Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sHlekTBVpWQC&pg=PA272&dq=%22the+neddies%22+horse+OR+racing+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Oj2-T-akH4PWmAWv6JUl&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22the%20neddies%22%20horse%20OR%20racing%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 272],
      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, have a dig at each other for backing losers.
  4. (Australia, colloquial, slang, usually, in the plural) Horsepower.
  5. 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=f3o7AAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+neddies%22+horse+OR+racing+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22the+neddies%22+horse+OR+racing+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Oj2-T-akH4PWmAWv6JUl&redir_esc=y page 496],
      The trouble is that the neddies in the Board of Trade would probably approve it.
    • 1973, Edmund Cooper, The Cloud Walker, Gollancz, 2011, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bWOd-P_eha0C&pg=PT62&dq=%22neddies%22+horse+OR+racing+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VDG-T8HSIvHKmQWwrYUl&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22neddies%22%20horse%20OR%20racing%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page],
      “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.
Noun

neddy (plural neddies)

  1. (Geordie, obsolete) Alternative form of netty#English|netty: an outhouse; a lavatory; a toilet.
    • 1825, John Trotter Brockett, Glossary of North Country Words:
      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.
Neddy
Proper noun
  1. A male given name


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