nether
IPA: nˈɛðɝ
noun
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
- (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
verb
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
adjective
- Lower; under.
- Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
adverb
- Down; downward.
- Low; low down.
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Examples of "nether" in Sentences
- She motioned to my buttocks and nether regions.
- It is one of the nether districts in the country.
- They are suffered by women in their nether regions.
- He scoops up the kittens on the cart's nether shelf.
- Fang is her accomplice in the nether realms of her imagination.
- It crosses the River Kent on the Nether Bridge and Miller Bridge.
- Many thought he may depart for the nether regions of the country.
- Neptune (the god of the Sea), and Pluto ( 'nether' or Stygian Jove).
- Further down the valley is the wooded and tranquil Nether Wasdale Estate.
- Its inscrutable nether regions are shot through with a hint of illumination.
- Helen descends to the nether world to seek Achilles on the Island of the Blest.
- As a runner, you don't HAVE to wear shorts that barely cover your nether-regions – it's not a requirement.
- So, if you wouldn't mind, please supply a source for that figure, or will ASSume it came from a thin nether region!
- (Isaiah 47: 1,2) "facing each other; both have hold of the handle by which the upper is turned round on the 'nether' millstone.
- If you've knocked your partner up, it seems to follow that you might be curious about her 'nether' regions during and after the birth of your child.
- Are we going to end up like Japan, in other words, a nether world of "zombie banks" that are not dead but not really alive either, still unable to work their way out from under all that bad debt?
- JANET RENO, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Everyday that goes by in which Elian is not reunited with his father and this matter brought to a conclusion is -- can be disruptive and no child should be in that kind of nether-nether land for that long.
- In the following paragraphs, I have drawn freely from materials in Sornig's book -- but for my own purposes in this article: the book itself uses the examples to illustrate a variety of sources of slang in accordance with the author's analysis of the "nether" reaches of the language, an analysis I shall only touch on here and there.
- Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban-shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front-folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waistcoats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails.
- Old Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front - folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waist-coats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails.
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