niddick

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈnɪdɪk/ === Noun === niddick (plural niddicks) (dialect, West Country) The nape of the neck. === References === Barnes, William (1862), Tiw; or, A view of the roots and stems of the English as a Teutonic tongue‎[7], London, J.R. Smith, page 178