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plural niddicks
(dialect, West Country) The nape of the neck. quotations examples
Chad a Crick in ma Back and in ma Niddick.
1746, Exmoor Courtship, published 1879, page 102
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.
1837, Mary Reynolds Palmer, A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect, page 19
[…] 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.
1903, Eden Phillpotts, The Striking Hours, page 118
"Take my tarpaulin coat for the journey. A thought small, but it will keep your niddick dry."
1928, Eden Phillpotts, Children of Men, page 389
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.]
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