Hannah vs Ned - What's the difference?
hannah | ned |
Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament.
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* 1959 , Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories , Houghton Mifflin 1959, page 116
* 2002 (Kate Atkinson), Not the End of the World , Doubleday, ISBN 0385604726, page 33:
(Scotland, slang, pejorative, offensive) A person, usually a youth, of low social standing and education, a violent disposition and with a particular style of dress (typically sportswear or Burberry), speech and behaviour.
* 2007 (Scotland), RecordView'' in ''Daily Record, 14 Feb 07 , Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, p. 8,
As proper nouns the difference between hannah and ned
is that hannah is mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament while Ned is a medieval diminutive of the male given name Edward.As a noun ned is
a person, usually a youth, of low social standing and education, a violent disposition and with a particular style of dress (typically sportswear or Burberry), speech and behaviour.As an initialism NED is
new English Dictionary.hannah
English
Proper noun
(s)- Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah , why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am I not better to thee than ten sons?
- "What about Hannah Schreiber?"
- He smiled, flashing some gold in his mouth. "How do you like that name? She was only a girl, but she had an old lady's name. - - -
- She could buy pretty clothes for a girl and plait her hair with ribbons. And she could call her a nice, old-fashioned, middle-class name like Sarah or Emma or Hannah .
ned
English
Noun
(en noun)- The mindless behaviour of drunken neds and nuisance neighbours brings misery to tens of thousands of honest folk.