niddickとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪdɪk/

名詞

niddick (複数形 niddicks)

1. (dialect, West Country) The nape of the neck.
   • 1746, Exmoor Courtship 1879 edition[2], page 102:

     Chad a Crick in ma Back and in ma Niddick.

   • 1837, Mary Reynolds Palmer, A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect‎^[3], page 19:

     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.

   • 1903, Eden Phillpotts, The Striking Hours‎^[4], page 118:

     […] 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.

   • 1928, Eden Phillpotts, Children of Men‎^[5], page 389:

     "Take my tarpaulin coat for the journey. A thought small, but it will keep your niddick dry."

   • [2015, Charles Hodgson, Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia‎^[6], →ISBN, page 115:

     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.]

参照

• Barnes, William (1862) Tiw; or, A view of the roots and stems of the English as a Teutonic tongue‎^[7], London, J.R. Smith, page 178