netty/ˈnɛti/EtymologyFrom net (“elegant, neat”) + -y (“forming adjs. of slightly lesser degree”).adjNeat, well-groomed, natty.“How prettie, how fine and how nettie, Good huswife should yettie.”Netted: made of or employing a net.“Ye ought for to keepe them close, till the day haue taken the gellie or netty rime, from the earth.”Netlike.nounAn outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.“Neddy, Netty, a certain place that will not bear a written explanation, but which is depicted to the very life in a tail-piece in the first edition of Bewick's ‘Land Birds’ (1797), p. 285.”Any other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a lavatory; a toilet.“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.”