ned

plural neds

1. ScotlandderogatoryoffensiveslangA person, usually a youth, of low social standing and education, with a violent disposition and a particular style of dress (typically sportswear or Burberry), speech and behaviour.

   You could live in a place for twenty years, you could clean up its streets and lock up its neds.

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 28

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   The mindless behaviour of drunken neds and nuisance neighbours brings misery to tens of thousands of honest folk.

   2007 (Scotland), RecordView in Daily Record, 14 Feb 07, Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, p. 8

   Synonyms: chav, charva, scally, scanger, schemie, Senga, yob, yobbo

plural Neds

1. A medieval diminutive of the male given name Edward.

   Each winter, after their seasons end, both Neds return to their respective homes in Georgia.

   2019 August 8, Alec Lewis, “‘They call me Nice Ned’: Brewers coach Ned Yost IV is finding his way in the family business”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2025

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   [B]ut ſweete Ned, to ſweeten which name of Ned, I giue thee this peniworth of ſugar, […]

   c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], signature D2, recto

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of New English Dictionary.
2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of National Endowment for Democracy.

plural NEDs

1. abbreviationacronymderogatoryAcronym of non-educated delinquent.

1. abbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of no evidence of disease.