nowty

nowty

(ˈnaʊtɪ)
adj, nowtier or nowtiest
dialect Northern English bad-tempered
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The story flits and shifts through timelines, so we see Jodie as a child, then Jodie as a nowty teenager, and Jodie as a young adult - repeated randomly as the game progresses.
The story flits and shifts through timelines, so we see Jodie as a child, then Jodie as nowty teenager, and Jodie as young adult - repeated randomly as the game progresses.
You have to wonder what calibre of officer we're breeding these days if they can't cope with a nowty pensioner and ribbing from their mates.
"As the fight gets nearer I tend to get a bit nowty," he says, half-apologising and throwing a combination into the mirror at the side of the ring.
We have a gang of around 20 which will increase in size with nowty fledglings later in spring.
He wrote: "Nowty is to get nothing." Not sure about that one.
It wasn't correct and three or four weeks later my body was just saying to me: "God, Lisa, you look terrible." I was so nowty. Cranky, you know.