Netty

/ˈnɛti/ · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete, rare) Neat, well-groomed, natty..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, rare) Neat, well-groomed, natty.
2. Netted: made of or employing a net.
3. Netlike.
4. (Geordie) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
5. (Geordie) Any other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a lavatory; a toilet.

Example Sentences

How prettie, how fine and how nettie, Good huswife should yettie.

Ye ought for to keepe them close, till the day haue taken the gellie or netty rime, from the earth.

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.

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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Word Forms

• nettier
• nettiest
• nettie
• neddy
• netties

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