nelly
noun
inferior or cheap wine.
nellies
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pluralof nelly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They don't lose any of the college-educated types by being nervous nellies.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2024
If they hoped this innocent stunt might escape the notice of the nervous nellies at the U.S.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2016
“All the nervous nellies on the call — I promise you, we are going to do better,” Bush told donors on a Wednesday conference call, according to people listening.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2015
Bird life was plentiful, and we noticed Cape pigeons, whale-birds, terns, mollymauks, nellies, sooty, and wandering albatrosses in the neighbourhood of the ship.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
These birds, properly called giant petrels, are usually known as "nellies" or "stinkers"; the latter title being thoroughly justified on account of the disagreeable smell which comes from them.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
