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"ref": "1825, John Trotter Brockett, Glossary of North Country Words:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of netty: an outhouse; a lavatory; a toilet."
],
"links": [
[
"netty",
"netty#English"
],
[
"outhouse",
"outhouse"
],
[
"lavatory",
"lavatory"
],
[
"toilet",
"toilet"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Geordie, obsolete) Alternative form of netty: an outhouse; a lavatory; a toilet."
],
"tags": [
"Geordie",
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnɛdi/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛdi"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-neddy.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/44/En-au-neddy.ogg/En-au-neddy.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/En-au-neddy.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "neddy"
}
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