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Derbyshire neck
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English
Noun
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en UK archaic goitre
en Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 1824 It is contained in a letter from near Wirksworth, in Derbyshire, of which the following is a copy:--Dear Sir, Idiotism and the Derbyshire neck prevail much in the small village of Ireton-wood, near to where I reside; there are very few females free from the full neck, and as many as seven or eight Idiots. 4