Neddy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A donkey or ass.
2. isim A horse, especially a racehorse.

   “Riding overland from Sydney to Brisbane, along the beautiful North Coast district of New South Wales, I tied my neddy up on the roadside and investigated a bark-shanty some little distance off in the Bush.”

3. isim The horse races.

   “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. isim Horsepower.

   “No chance in hell, even if it was a Gurney Eagle engine. The only way you can get those sort of neddies out of a 302 Windsor would be boost.”

5. isim 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, page 496, The trouble is that the neddies in the Board of Trade would probably approve it.”

6. isim Alternative form of netty (“outhouse, lavatory, toilet”).

   “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.”

7. isim A cosh.

   “[…] it was Dan Mayne who broke his skull with a "neddy."”

8. özel isim A diminutive of the male given name Edward.