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Definition of Nelly
1. Proper noun. A spelling variant of Nellie, a diminutive of the female given names Eleanor and Helen. ¹
2. Proper noun. One of the Frazier Islands where nellies breed. ¹
3. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) Life. ¹
4. Noun. (derogatory slang) An effeminate homosexual man. ¹
5. Noun. (British slang) A silly person. ¹
6. Noun. A common name for the giant petrels, ''Macronectes giganteus'' and ''Macronectes halli'' ¹
7. Adjective. (slang) Unmanly, effeminate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nelly
1. nellie [n -LIES] - See also: nellie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nelly
Literary usage of Nelly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1907)
"5 6 nelly Comley to a Large Pewter Dish 15 nelly Comley to a Iron Pott 15 6 nelly
Comley to a Bake Iron, 2 nelly Comley to a Milk ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"nelly Ely hab a voice like de turtle dove,— I hears it in de meadow and I hears
it in de grove; nelly Bly hab a heart warm as a cup ob tea, And bigger dan ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"said nelly, with a boldness that seemed the impulse of indignation. ... I can't
bear this any longer, nelly, — I must trip' my anchor and move away. ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1834)
"nelly. Save you, fair lady ! Which of you will first look into futurity? nelly.
Then you must retire out of hearing. Lucy. This young lady. ..."
5. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"Now Ben he loved a pretty maid, Her name was nelly Gray; So he went to pay her
his devours ... But when he called on nelly Gray, She made him quite a scoff; ..."
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