netty
/ˈnɛti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
name
Alternative form of Nettie.
Example Sentences
- "How prettie, how fine and how nettie, Good huswife should yettie."
- "Ye ought for to keepe them close, till the day haue taken the gellie or netty rime, from the earth."
- "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."
- "A line of pit cottages... tiny back gardens with outside lavatories, ‘netties’, some of them emptied twice a week by the council."
- "Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside."
- "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."