Definition of "neddy" in inglés

noun

1. A donkey or ass.

2. (UK, Australia, slang) A horse, especially a racehorse.

   • 1932, Ion Idriess, The Desert Column, extracted in 2006, Rex Sadler, Tom Hayllar, In the Line of Fire: Real Stories of Australians at War, from Gallipoli to Vietnam, page 61, Some of the boys whipped off their hats and laughingly smacked their neddies′ rumps, for we hated using spurs on the poor thirsty beggars.

3. (Australia, slang, in the plural, with "the") The horse races.

4. (Australia, colloquial, slang, usually in the plural) Horsepower.

5. 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.

noun

1. (Geordie, obsolete) Alternative form of netty (“outhouse, lavatory, toilet”).

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) A cosh.