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nebour, nebours, neeb, neebar, neebars, neeber, neebers, neebir, neebirs, neeboor, neeboors, neebor, neeborheit, neeborin, neeborlike, neebors, neebour, neebourheid, neebourin, neebourlike, neebour-like, neebours, neebrid, neebs, neebur, neeburs, neeghbours, neehburs, neeper, neeperlike, neepers, neepour, neepourheid, neepourlike, neepours, neibor, neibors, neibour, neibourheid, neibourhood, neibourhuid, neibourlik, neibourlike, neibours, neighbour-like, neiper, neiperheid, neiper-like, neipers, neipor, neipors, neipour, nibour, nibourheid, nibourlike, nibours, nighber, nighberheid, nighbers, nigh-boor, nigh-boors, nighbour, nyb$rin, nyber, nybers, nybor, nybors, nybour, nybours,
neebour [ˈnibər, MN. ˈnipər]
n. A neighbour. A husband or wife, a bedfellow, a partner, a close companion. Of people or things: a match, an equal, one of the same kind, one of a set or pair.
pl. neebours Also neebs col. WC. Neighbours, friends.
v. Of people or things: to be situated near, to consort with, associate with. To co-operate with one's neighbours. To live beside, to be neighbour to, to associate with at work, or by way of being sociable. To consort with a member of the opposite sex. To match, form one of a pair or part of a set.
Compounds and phrases etc.
neebourheid: Neighbourhood.
neebourin: A gathering to mutually assist on a farm.
neebour-like: Neighbourly.
naed, naednae, naenae, naid, need, neededna, needednae, needet, needfa, needfae, needfie, needfu, needful, needit, needn$e, needna, neednae, needne, needny, needsna, neid, neidfu, neidit, neidna, neidnae,
need [nid]
n. A need.
v. To need, often connoting moral obligation rather than necessity. To have to or to be etc. out of necessity.
pt. pp. needit. MN. see note [not, nɔt]
neg. needna Need not, needn't.
neg. needsna Needs not.
Compounds and phrases etc.
needfu [-fə S. -fɛ, -fɪ, EC. -fe, WC. -fɑ, N. -fɛ, U. I. -fu]: Needy, needful.
needcessitie, needcessities, needcessity, neidcessitie, neidcessities, neidcessity,
needcessity [ˈnidsɛsɪtɪ]
n. A Necessity or need.
pl. needcessities Necessities, requirements. The necessities of day-to-day existence.
needelt, needle, needled, neidelt, neidle, stockin-needle,
needle [nidl]
n. A needle. A type of broach. A scaffolding spar etc.
v. To needle. To move dexterously.
pt. pp. needelt
Compounds and phrases etc.
deil's needle, deil's dernin needle: A dragonfly or crane fly. The shepherd's-needle Scandix pecten-veneris.
stockin-needle: A darning needle.
kneef, kneif, knief, neaf, neef, neif,
neef [nif]
n. MN. Difficulty, trouble.
adj. MN. Difficult, arduous.
neeger, niger,
neeger [ˈnigər]
n. A contemptuous term for a person of Sub-Saharan African origin.
Compounds and phrases etc.
neeger-whipper: A slavedriver, a relentless taskmaster.
neeger, neegur, neiger, neigur,
neeger [ˈnigər]
v. To head a ball.
neap, neaps, neep, neep-cleek, neep-click, neep-cutter, neep-dreels, neep-hasher, neepheed, neepheid, neep-heid, neepi, neepie, neepie-lantrin, neepikie, neep-lantrin, neepockie, neep-pluck, neep-rinner, neep-ruit, neeps, neip, neip-cutter, neip-dreils, neips, nepe, swaddie, swaddis, swaddish, swadish, turneep, turnup,
neep [nip]
n. A turnip.
dim. neepie, neepockie
v. To feed cattle with turnips. To sow land with turnips.
Compounds and phrases etc.
Jeanie-fae-the-neeps: An old fashioned or badly dressed woman.
neep brose: Brose made with the liquid in which turnips have been boiled.
neep-cleek: A tool for pulling turnips.
neep-cutter: A turnip slicer.
neep-dreels: The rows of turnips in a field.
neep-hasher: An implement for slicking turnips for fodder.
neep-heid: A stupid person.
neep lantren: A hallowe'en lantern made from a turnip.
neep-pluck: A tool for pulling turnips.
neep-rinner: An implement for hoeing turnips.
neep-ruit: Land cleared of turnips for grain crops to follow.
swadish neep: A turnip.
neeb, neebin, neebin, neebit, neebit, neep, neepin, neepit, neib, neibin, nib, nibbin, nibbin, nibbit, nibet, niep, niepin, nip, nipin,
neep [I.Sh. ni(ː)p, nib]
n. A steep, overhanging slope, crag, or hill-top. A promontory.
v. To nod from drowsiness, to doze. To stand or sit in a bent position. Of corn: to be broken or drooping.
pt. pp. neepit adj. Dejected, sickly, having a feeble appearance.
Compounds and phrases etc.
neepin: Nodding from drowsiness.
near, neer, neir,
neer [niːr]
n. A kidney.
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