Associations to the word «Nelly»

Wiktionary

NELLY, noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) Life.
NELLY, noun. (derogatory) (slang) An effeminate homosexual man.
NELLY, noun. (British) (slang) A silly person.
NELLY, noun. A common name for the giant petrels, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli
NELLY, adjective. (slang) Unmanly, effeminate.
NELLY, proper noun. A spelling variant of Nellie, a diminutive of the female given names Eleanor and Helen.
NELLY, proper noun. One of the Frazier Islands where nellies breed.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin