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Uncle Ned en · NOUN

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1. (Cockney, slang) bed.
   • 'Oh yes, up the apples and pears to Uncle Ned, that's me,' Freda said. 2019, Wendy Cheyne, From the Auld Rock to a Hard Place, page 151:
   • Oi fink your Uncle Ned's all 'arbour. Oi'll wait for hinstrooctions after you and the Major stump the chalk. 2006, William Whitson, Test of Battle, page 176:
   • Went in a room, not much furniture: still no bloody light; sat down on a Uncle Ned an' waited while ol' woofy said she'd make some Rosie Lee. 1958, Harold Elvin, A Cockney in Moscow, page 42:
   • "Well," she replied, "when yer gets up from yer Uncle Ned and yer wants ter get away from the Trouble an' Strife, yer'd go dahn the Frog and Toad to meet yer China Plates at the Rubba-Dub-Dub!" 2013, Chris Sharp, War Games in an Urban Village: A Personal Account of Boyhood:
   • Get up them apples and pears and into Uncle Ned!
   • "Cool it, cool it." Leonara cut in. "Nobody's blaming you, Charlie. You did right, shoving him back in his uncle. Cocked it all up a bit, though, ain't it?' Uncle. Uncle Ned. 1982, Jack S. Scott, An Uprush of Mayhem, page 105:
2. (Cockney, slang) head.
   • Bill: Me Uncle Ned. Omnes: Uncle Ned? Bill: O, me head — the empty part of me. 1977, Names - Volumes 25-26, page 130:
   • Use your Uncle Ned!
   • Get yer barf towel— always supposin' as yer've gotter barf towel— fold it rhand the jug, an' rhand yer uncle Ned [head] , stick yer mouth over the jug where all the steam's rushin ' art — yer are listening , aren't yer?— and ignore it. 1950, Naomi Jacob, Me--looking Back, page 202:
   • "The Beacons?" a cockney voice shouted. “You're off your Uncle Ned.” 2020, Ian Slater, World in Flames:

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