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Word: nelly (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • slang Unmanly, effeminate.

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Noun:

  • A common name for the giant petrels, ''Macronectes giganteus'' and ''Macronectes halli''
  • slang A silly person.
  • Cockney rhyming slang Life.
  • slang An effeminate homosexual man.

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Proper noun:

  • A spelling variant of Nellie, a diminutive of Eleanor or Helen.
  • One of the Frazier Islands where nellies breed.

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