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Definition of Neddies
1. neddy [n] - See also: neddy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neddies
Literary usage of Neddies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"They ask change for a NED or six. 1789. PARKER. Life's Painter, ' The Happy Pair.'
With spunk let's post our neddies. 1859. ..."
2. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"... to the racing neddies. It was all very well at first, but when the tug arrived,
and the spur was exhibited at the run-in, up went the heels and down ..."
3. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"... relying on the fact, that they had all once been donkey-riders themselves,
undertook to act as jocks on the occasion, to the racing neddies. ..."
4. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1807)
"Why, they intend to mount neddies. Frederic, Now 1 am as wife as I was before.
... Ay, we call them neddies in the weft. ..."
5. A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by William Henry Hudson (1910)
"He was a man of iron constitution and gave himself a hard life, and he was hard
on his neddies, but he had to feed them well, and this he often contrived to ..."
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