Definitions for Nelly

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Nelly nel·ly

Spelling: [nel-ee]

IPA: /ˈnɛl i/

Nelly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Nelly (ellny).

Definitions for Nelly

noun

1. inferior or cheap wine.
2. a female given name, form of Helen.
3. (often lowercase) Slang. Offensive. a fussily effeminate male. Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.

Origin of Nelly

First recorded in 1940-45; of uncertain origin

Examples for Nelly

“To say she regretted it is too extreme,” Fiennes says of nelly.

Why, nelly doesn't leave the house; I've stopped her attendance even at Barnard.

Is Mr. Bellmer handsome—handsome enough to be nelly's partner?

Acting was still a disreputable profession, but respectable nelly is reluctant to become his kept woman.

Grand and beautiful as she is to others, to him she is still his little nelly.

Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Mary J. Blige, and nelly performed, along with Aerosmith.

nelly, next week it will be a year since our first betrothal; do you remember?

nelly is “famous” for songs like “Hot in Herre” and “Air Force Ones.”

Of course, as fast as I can lay hands on them, I'm destroying every likeness of the old nelly.

Now, nelly is not famous for his political activism or preoccupation with African-American issues.