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Definition: NEDDY |
NEDDYNoun1. A pet name for a donkey. |
Date "NEDDY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Neddy (a man's name). A contraction and diminutive of Mine Edward-Mine Eddy, My N'Eddy. Teddy is the French tu, toi, form; and Neddy the nunation form. (Ed', Ted, Ned.) Neddy. A donkey; a low cart used in Dublin; so called because its jolting keeps the riders eternally nodding. "The `Set-down' was succeeded by the Noddy, so called from its oscillating motion backwards and forwards."- Sketches of Ireland (1847). Neddy. A dunce; a euphemism for "an ass." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: NEDDY |
| English words defined with "NEDDY": Neddies. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "NEDDY": Out. (references) |
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Screenplays | Neddy, I've had just about all I can take of Homer Simpson's torso (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OUT-:OF:-:DOORS:, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. I climbed to the top of a mountain one day To see the sun setting in glory, And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray, Of a perfectly splendid story. 'Twas about an old man and the ass he bestrode Till the strength of the beast was o'ertested; Then the man would carry him miles on the road Till Neddy was pretty well rested. The moon rising solemnly over the crest Of the hills to the east of my station Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west Like a visible new creation. And I thought of a joke (and I laughed till I cried) Of an idle young woman who tarried About a church-door for a look at the bride, Although 'twas herself that was married. To poets all Nature is pregnant with grand Ideas -- with thought and emotion. I pity the dunces who don't understand The speech of earth, heaven and ocean. Stromboli Smith |
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| "NEDDY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NEDDY" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ed,edd neddy | 3 |
ed edd neddy | 3 |
neddy smith | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "NEDDY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Gomar (ass, cuddy, donkey, imbecility, jackass, moke, mutton head, owl, stupid person). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Магаре (Dickey). (various references) | |
Czech | Eda (Ted). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Csacsi (ass, ass's foal, burro, cuddy, dickey, dicky, geese, goose, jerusalem pony, moke). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eddynay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jumento (donkey, jack, jackass), burro (ass, donkey, dull, fool, idiot, ignoramus, jackass, moke, mule, silly, stupid). (various references) | |
Russian | Осел, осел (ass, asses, cuddy, donkey, jackass, moke, mutton-head), ослик (burro). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | magarac (ass, dicky, donkey, jackass, moke). (various references) | |
Spanish | Burrito. (various references) | |
Swedish | Åsna (Dickey). (various references) | |
Turkish | Eşek (asinine, ass, cabbagehead, Dickey, dicky, donkey, moke). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Осел, Ослик, "урінь, 'іслюк. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "NEDDY" (pronounced 'Ned"dy'): Bendy, BRANDY, Cloddy, Coddymoddy, Crowdy, Daddy, Dandy, findy, Hendy, howdy, Maundy, middy, Milady, noddy, Overhardy, Pandowdy, Predy, Quandy, Rody, rowdy, shindy, Shreddy, soddy, Stiddy, toddy, tody, Twaddy, Tydy, untidy, Widdy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-n-y" | |
-1 letter: deny, dyed, dyne, eddy. | |
-2 letters: den, dey, dye, end, yen. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, en, ne, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-n-y" | |
+1 letter: dynode, undyed. | |
+2 letters: dynodes, eddying. | |
+3 letters: bendayed, cyanided, hiddenly, hoydened, soddenly, suddenly, vandyked. | |
+4 letters: anhydride, decadency, dynamited, hendiadys, joyridden, underbody. | |
+5 letters: anhydrides, concededly, cylindered, decadently, dementedly, dendrology, dependably, dependency, deridingly, designedly, didynamies, downplayed, extendedly, intendedly, redundancy, splendidly, syndicated, understudy, undismayed. | |
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