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Nellie
[ nel-ee ]
noun
- a female given name, form of Helen.
- (often lowercase) Slang.
- Offensive. a fussily effeminate male.
- Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a gay man.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Nellie1
Idioms and Phrases
see nervous nellie .Example Sentences
She continued to write, mostly through an advice column “Dear Nellie,” at The New York Evening Journal.
She pulls us away from her major story again in lengthy chapters about Edith Carow Roosevelt and Nellie Herron Taft.
And of course White Sox greats like Nellie Fox, Dick Allen, and Frank Thomas.
But that prize must be deducted from the profits of the performance, objected the practical Nellie Agnew.
After searching through the house, Nellie ran out to the barn to look for the lost pet.
Nellie was always jealous of the welfare of the working class, and was ever vigilant as to its interests.
And Nellie Sinclair never in all her life sang that song so well as she did that night; and she never sang it again.
"There's nae word o' Mysie yet," said Nellie, when he came in, and her words seemed to shock him with their unexpectedness.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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