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netty
/ˈnɛti/
adj 3noun 2name 1
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3ADJ.
certain, outside, shared
NETTY + NOUN
rime
PREP.
between, from
Definitions
adj
1
Neat, well-groomed, natty.
How prettie, how fine and how nettie, Good huswife should yettie.
adj
1
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.
2
Netlike.
noun
1
An 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.
2
Any 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.
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How prettie, how fine and how nettie, Good huswife should yettie.
Wiktionary02
Ye ought for to keepe them close, till the day haue taken the gellie or netty rime, from the earth.
Wiktionary03
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.
Wiktionary04
A line of pit cottages... tiny back gardens with outside lavatories, ‘netties’, some of them emptied twice a week by the council.
Wiktionary05
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.
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