netty

adj

1. (obsolete, rare)Neat, well-groomed, natty.

   “How prettie, how fine and how nettie, Good huswife should yettie.”

2. Netted: made of or employing a net.

   “Ye ought for to keepe them close, till the day haue taken the gellie or netty rime, from the earth.”

3. Netlike.

noun

1. (Geordie)An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

   “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.”

2. (Geordie)Any other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a lavatory; a toilet.

   “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.”

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Nettie.