How do you pronounce niddick?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnɪdɪk/.

niddick

/ˈnɪdɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

The nape of the neck.

"Chad a Crick in ma Back and in ma Niddick."
"an way that a geed en sich a wap in the niddick that strambang a het es head agin the clovel, an made a bump in es brow."
"[…]an' Tim just took un by the niddick, same as you might a kitten, an' hove the blasphemous twoad into the mud along wi' the ducks an' watercress."
""Take my tarpaulin coat for the journey. A thought small, but it will keep your niddick dry.""
"Historically, other words have been used to refer to this place on the body: hattrel, niddick, noddle, noll, nuke, and poll; all have passed out of use."

Uncertain. The English Dialect Dictionary mentions several other spellings found in other dialects (nedack, neddick, nudack, nuddick, nudeck) and compares it to nod (“nape of the neck”), found in e.g. John Coker Egerton's Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways (1884). Compare the ending to -ock.

niddicks (plural)