nellies
- plural of nelly.
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
Some driftwood floated by during the evening, and a great quantity of birds flew over, among which were nellies, peterels, albatrosses, and a large bird of a brilliant blue plumage.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan
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 Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir
