" Needash " ....?

[Steve G]

  Mean anything to anyone? It's a word. Not a name.

Craziest thing; I was getting some hay, for the horses, and as I exited the hay shed, aiming to nip smartly across the pen, into the stables, I said; " Here we go, horses. I'm just gonna dash ..... "

Bang! " Needash ". A word I haven't heard, or thought, in pushing fifty years! In my family, it basically mean't " Shh! Say nothing! " But, we'd use " Kakker " amongst ourselves.

So, I'm thinking it could be another of the Irish Gypsy words my people picked up. They had a fair bit to do with Ireland and I know a few more words we'd use were of that origin.

Can anyone throw any light on this, please?

Thanks 

[youngtug]

Not sure about this; 
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01m0b/

[Steve G]

  Seems tenuous, Tuggist. I mean; It does sound like the right word. But, that context is right out the window, isn't it? What's " The Flash Tailors " anyway? All sounds a bit Dickensian.

I think we need someone more up on their Shelta / Irish to help on this one.

[youngtug]

Only reference I could find, thought it would not be correct but,,,

[ except for nee in Teluga meaning ; yours.]

Teluga is a language derived from Sanscrit.

[Steve G]

Teluga is a language derived from Sanscrit.

I see what you just did there! 

[youngtug]

Maybe nidash?

           http://www.rootschat.com/links/01m0c/

[Steve G]

  " Nidash " actually sounds, and looks good!

My spelling is purely, randomly phonetic, of course. I could just have easily gone for " Kneedash ". God knows where we'd end up then.

Nidash is Hindi? Cool! What does it Mean though, please? I couldn't find it.

Nor could I find Partridge's on Kindle, unfortunately. Or I'd have likely bought that. Always fancied a copy. Eyeballs just aren't up to paper books any more 

[youngtug]

2o8 SHELTA

n'edas 'a place': 'to lodge' (nedas, nedhers, nyedhers: naddis,
nadas G, nethrus = 'bed' C). K'en n'edas [nedhers kena,
n^daskan (L')] 'a lodging-house'; n, gdter *a drinking place',
'public-house', 'drinking booth'; «. a Dal'on 'Heaven';
«. a mlder 'Hell'; n. a t'era 'grate'; «. ladu 'a graveyard';
w. relti 'a camping place'; w. §ural 'a racecourse*; mugel-
n'edas 'an orchard'. Nyadas (L), translated 'table'. Irish
ionad 'place'.
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nid'eS ' no '/ not ', ' nothing ', ' do not ', ' is or are not ', and, generally,
an expression of negation in assertion or command (nidash,
nidesh, nidyesh, nyesh, nijesh, nijish, nijes). Ntd'e^ kari 'do
not buy'. Nejish (C), translated 'stand back! look out!'
Irish nl h-eadh [ni ha] 'it is not'. Compare st6s.

[youngtug]

From here; https://archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_sth_vertxt-1/rosettaproject_sth_vertxt-1_djvu.txt