nephys

Updated: May 1, 2025

'Indeed, Sir Christifer, I know a deal o' farmin, an' was brought up i' the thick on it, as you may say. An' there was my husband's great-aunt managed a farm for twenty year, an' left legacies to all her nephys an' nieces, an' even to my husband, as was then a babe unborn. 'Psha! a woman six feet high, with a squint and sharp elbows, I daresay a man in petticoats.

George Eliot - Scenes of Clerical Life