nee-am

Updated: November 15, 2024

I asked her if she had ever heard the name of Meynell; and after profound consideration she replied in the negative. "I don't mind hearing aught of folks called Meynell," she said with more or less of the patois, which I was beginning to understand; "but I haven't got mooch memory for nee-ams. I might have heard o' such folks, and not minded t' nee-am."

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Birds of Prey