netty

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It's called a netty pot, and as funny as it sounds, all weekend I was entertaining the idea of pouring warm water into my nose to try and alleviate the stuffiness.

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  1. Resembling a net; interlaced or interwoven like network; netted. This reticulate or net-work was also considerable in the inward parts of man, not onely from the first subtegmen, or warp of his formation, but in the netty fibers of the veins and vessels of life. Sir T. Browne, Garden of Cyrus, iii.

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  • It's called a netty pot, and as funny as it sounds, all weekend I was entertaining the idea of pouring warm water into my nose to try and alleviate the stuffiness. —  The Fergus Falls Daily Journal
  • Michael Caine-circa-'67 lookalike Damien Mulley, in his soon-to-be-complete mission to know absofuckinglutely everything, is offering his services / knowledge / charm / nice line in tasteful ties* to companies who want an amazingly thorough, hyper-fast grounding in social media, online marketing and all things of netty things. —  Irish Blogs
  • Jenny runs around like a fluffy little chickadee with its head cut off, spurting crazy and Sumatran everywhere, in a double-cute blue plaid dress that sticks way out, Judy Jetson-style, with a pink netty petticoat underneath. —  Television Without Pity
  • So I put myself in reverse and undid the whoooooole thing (with button and ladderplay), then sat at a safe distance from the seething netty beast and pondered the actuality of the situation. —  PureLandMountain.com
  • Now and again a dog nosed among a thousand smells and scented his master; the ruff of his neck stood up like a hog's bristles and a netty ridge prickled along his spine. —  Irish Fairy Tales
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