Nellie
or Nel·ly
noun
- Offensive.a fussily effeminate male.
- Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.
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Contemporary Examples of nellie
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.
Historical Examples of nellie
This who was the most extraordinary woman that ever lived, was also little Nellie Winship.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
Nellie was huddled against her mother, who sat, idle, with little Benny in her arms.
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
Even Nellie, child that she was, understood the grimness of the battle before them.
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
What had Nellie ever put into it that it should be half hers?
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
This had been equally true of the elder Malls, was true today of Nellie and her husband.
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius