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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King