netty

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. Geordie
    — 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.
  2. Any other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a lavatory; a toilet. Geordie
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Neat, well-groomed, natty. obsolete,rare
    — How prettie, how fine and how nettie, Good huswife should yettie.
  2. Netted: made of or employing a net.
    — Ye ought for to keepe them close, till the day haue taken the gellie or netty rime, from the earth.
  3. Netlike.

词形变化

nettier comparative nettiest superlative nettie alternative neddy alternative nettier comparative nettiest superlative nettie alternative neddy alternative netties plural nettie alternative neddy alternative

词源

词源 1
From net (“elegant, neat”) + -y (“forming adjs. of slightly lesser degree”).
词源 2
From net (“openwork fabric mesh”) + -y (“forming adjectives”).
词源 3
Uncertain. Proposed derivations include a corruption of necessary, a euphemism for outhouse; French nettoyer (“to cleanse”); and Italian gabinetto (“toilet”).
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