neddy

plural neddies

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

   AIRNews founder Arthur Stevens wishes Holden well adding, "We will miss his insights into the world of Aussie Rules Football and his understanding of the neddies and the Spring Racing Carnival.

   2007 January 8, BearCave, “Peter Holden moving to Now FM”, in aus.radio.broadcast (Usenet)

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   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.

   1919, Kilroy Harris, Outback in Australia […] , Garden City Press, page 3

   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.

   From my uninformed reading of cycliterature (and other stuff), if you are a mainly short-twitch muscle type - a sprinter - then your natural cadence will be higher that^([sic]) if you are a mainly long-twitch muscle type - a hill-climber, or in neddy-racing terms, a "stayer" (I think).

   2003 April 29, Fred Nieman, “90 cadence”, in aus.bicycle (Usenet)

   I was up to 6 horses and figured to keep them fit and off the roids and put two in each race and get 1st and 2nd to build up the cash. Got home drunk saturday night saw a fake neddy at 4-1 so put all my $300k on it and lost. Glad I wasn't Jean Bridges and spent $300k of my real money

   2009 March 23, ^Tems^, “We need a new grid ad”, in aus.tv (Usenet)

3. Australiain pluralslangwith definite articleThe 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.

   2010, Peter Klein, Silk Chaser, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 272

4. Australiacolloquialplural normallyslangHorsepower.

   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.

   2007 March 24, Noddy nospam, “GT40 on ebay”, in aus.cars (Usenet)

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   Weird as it sounds, it was because you weren't going fast enough :-) I've found that if you wick it up too much exiting a curve you tend to do one of those feet off the pegs numbers. Fun, huh? Otoh, if you carry more corner speed the back is more likely to let go gradually, because the tyre is already closer to the edge, so it doesn't require a fist full of neddies to break it loose. I still wouldn't recommmend it for the road...

   1997 December 3, Graham Byrnes, “Heartstopping moment.....”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet)

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.

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   “The neddies might call it a machine. They might think you guilty of machinism.” “Hang the stupid neddies!” Kieron carefully loosened the mooring, and the balloon rose.

   1973, Edmund Cooper, The Cloud Walker, Gollancz, published 2011, unnumbered page

plural neddies

1. GeordiealternativeobsoleteAlternative 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.

   1825, John Trotter Brockett, Glossary of North Country Words

plural neddies

1. obsoleteslangA cosh.

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

   1887, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 1642

alternative Neddie

1. A diminutive of the male given name Edward.