niddick

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The nape of the neck. West-Country,dialectal
    — Chad a Crick in ma Back and in ma Niddick.

词形变化

niddicks plural

词源

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.
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