Meaning of netty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   Geordie
2. Any other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a lavatory; a toilet.
   Geordie

Examples

“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.”

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