different between jetty vs netty

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??ti/

• Rhymes: -?ti

Etymology 1

From French jetée (“pier, jetty, causeway”), from jeter. Compare jet, jutty.

Noun

jetty (plural jetties)

1. A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
2. A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
3. (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.

Synonyms

• (protective structure): mole, breakwater
• (wharf, dock): pier

Hypernyms

• (pier): wharf, dock

Coordinate terms

• (pier): quay, levee

Translations

Verb

jetty (third-person singular simple present jetties, present participle jettying, simple past and past participle jettied)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To jut out; to project.

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Etymology 2

jet +? -y

Adjective

jetty (comparative jettier, superlative jettiest)

1. (archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.75:

     those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1:

     She raised her face veil [...] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing [...].

Derived terms

• jettiness

References

• jetty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “jetty”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Alternative forms

• nettie, neddy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?ti/
• Rhymes: -?ti

Etymology 1

net (“elegant, neat”) +? -y (“forming adjs. of slightly lesser degree”)

Adjective

netty (comparative nettier, superlative nettiest)

1. (obsolete, rare) Neat, well-groomed, natty.
   • 1573, Thomas Tusser, "Points of Huswifrie" in Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry:

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

Etymology 2

net (“openwork fabric mesh”) +? -y (“forming adjectives”)

Adjective

netty (comparative nettier, superlative nettiest)

1. Netted: made of or employing a net.
   • 1587, Leonard Mascall, The Booke of Cattell: Sheep, p. 214:

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

2. Netlike.

Etymology 3

Of uncertain etymology. Proposed derivations include a corruption of necessary, an euphemism for outhouse; French nettoyer (“to cleanse”); and Italian gabbinetti (“toilets”).

Noun

netty (plural netties)

1. (Tyneside) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   • 1978, John Lewis, Uncertain Sound, Ch. iii, p. 75:

     A line of pit cottages... tiny back gardens with outside lavatories, ‘netties’, some of them emptied twice a week by the council.

   • 1992 May 4, The Independent, p. 13:

     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. (Tyneside) Any other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a lavatory; a toilet.
   • 1903, English Dialect Dictionary, Vol. IV, p. 255:

     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.

Usage notes

Originally reckoned euphemistic.

Synonyms

• (outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• The Geordie Netty: A Short History and Guide, Frank Graham, 1986, Butler Publishing; New edition, ?ISBN[3]