neen
An archaic Yorkshire dialect plural form meaning 'eyes', derived from Old English 'eagan'.
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Neen maar afhankelijk van nabijheid kan je de werking en berekeningen wel aan of afzetten. (T is een te simpel voorbeeld natuurlijk)
Utterly amazed to discover that wikipedia has not been updated with info on the latest MurderBot book. It's neen out like a double digit number of hours. Come on nerds...
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An archaic Yorkshire dialect plural form meaning 'eyes', derived from Old English 'eagan'. Part of a broader set of Northern English dialect eye-words (cf. Scots 'een'). Its use was largely confined to rural Yorkshire speech and is now found only in historical dialect literature.
She fixed him wi' her sharp neen and he knew straight off he'd been caught out.
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(archaic, Yorkshire) The eyes.
“Neen maar afhankelijk van nabijheid kan je de werking en berekeningen wel aan of afzetten. (T is een te simpel voorbeeld natuurlijk)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Utterly amazed to discover that wikipedia has not been updated with info on the latest MurderBot book. It's neen out like a double digit number of hours. Come on nerds...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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