Nellie

or Nel·ly

[nel-ee]

noun

a female given name, form of Helen.
(often lowercase) Slang.
1. Offensive.a fussily effeminate male.
2. 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.
The Daring Journalist Nellie Bly Hasn’t Lost Her Cred in a Century
Jessica Ferri
July 18, 2014
She pulls us away from her major story again in lengthy chapters about Edith Carow Roosevelt and Nellie Herron Taft.
Wait for the Movie Version of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “The Bully Pulpit”
David Nasaw
November 12, 2013
And of course White Sox greats like Nellie Fox, Dick Allen, and Frank Thomas.
Obama Wins Heisman Trophy!
Mark Katz
October 9, 2009

Historical Examples of nellie

This who was the most extraordinary woman that ever lived, was also little Nellie Winship.
The Bacillus of Beauty
Harriet Stark
What had Nellie ever put into it that it should be half hers?
Dust
Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
Nellie was huddled against her mother, who sat, idle, with little Benny in her arms.
Dust
Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
Even Nellie, child that she was, understood the grimness of the battle before them.
Dust
Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
This had been equally true of the elder Malls, was true today of Nellie and her husband.
Dust
Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

Idioms and Phrases with nellie

Nellie

see nervous nellie.

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