 Thus, another explanation would be that it comes from a Modern "Romanic" Italian form of the word "gabinetti", though only a relatively small number of Italians have migrated to the North of England, mostly during the 19th century.Some etymologists connect the word "netty" to the Modern English word "needy".John Trotter Brockett, writing in 1829 in his "A glossary of north country words...", claims that the etymon of "netty" (and its related form "neddy") is the Modern English "needy" and "need".