neddies

Noun (1)

neddy (plural neddies)

1. A donkey or ass.
2. (Australia, UK, slang) A horse, especially a racehorse.
   • 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
3. (Australia, in plural, slang, with-definite-article) The 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. (Australia, colloquial, plural-normally, slang) Horsepower.
   • 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...1997 December 3, Graham Byrnes, “Heartstopping moment.....”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet)
5. An idiot; a stupid or contemptible person.
   • The trouble is that the neddies in the Board of Trade would probably approve it.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

Noun (2)

neddy (plural neddies)

1. (obsolete, slang) A cosh.
   • […] it was Dan Mayne who broke his skull with a "neddy."1887, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 1642

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