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nellie or nelly
1 (Nellie Deane) rhymes with [offensive] queen gay man: the place was full of nellies
2 (Nellie Duff) rhymes with [offensive] puff gay man: Your mate - is he a nelly?
3 (Nellie Duff) rhymes with [offensive] puff breath, life: not on your nellie

Nellie Deane is a character in a music-hall song; Nellie Duff is probably a name invented for the rhyme.

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noun
Also Nelly, Nellie, nellie Also Nelly, Nellie, nellie
noun, Austral

1: A silly or effeminate person; a homosexual. (1931 —) .
T. Wells You don't suppose it could have anything to do with that Strangler business, do you? Not that I'm a nervous Nelly type (1967)
K. Platt He...puffed daintily on a long cigarette as he watched the nellies cruising to the 'tearoom' (1970). See also to sit next to Nelly at sit verb.

2: Cheap wine. Also Nelly's death. (1935 —) .
Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney): You've got to get up very early in the morning to catch them sober and then you can't always be sure on account of their habit of keeping a flagon of nellie by the bed (1973).

3: not on your Nelly not on your life, not likely. (1941 —) .
Globe & Mail (Toronto): I appear to be giving away most of the plot? Not on your nelly. That's only the beginning (1974).

[From the female personal name Nelly, familiar form of Helen or Eleanor; in sense 3, from rhyming slang Nelly Duff = puff = (breath of) life.]

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For a list of words related to nellie, see:

• Homosexuality - nellie: (adj) Slang. designating an effeminate male; Derogatory slang. designating a homosexual male

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See words rhyming with "nelly."

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - stormsvale

idioms:

• not on your nelly    aldrig i livet!

Nederlands (Dutch)
verwijfde/dwaze persoon, stormvogel

Français (French)
n. - (US) folle (péj), (US) efféminé (péj)

idioms:

• not on your nelly    (GB) jamais de la vie

Deutsch (German)
n. - Weichling

idioms:

• not on your nelly    (ugs) nie im Leben

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανόητο ή θηλυπρεπές άτομο

idioms:

• not on your nelly    αποκλείεται

Italiano (Italian)
ossifraga, sogno

Português (Portuguese)
n. - vinho (m) barato, homem homossexual irrequieto

Русский (Russian)
педик, совершенно нет

Español (Spanish)
n. - persona tonta o afeminada, vino de inferior calidad

idioms:

• not on your nelly    ciertamente que no

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - slags stormfågel

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
娘娘腔的同性恋男子

idioms:

• not on your nelly    当然不, 绝对不

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 娘娘腔的同性戀男子

idioms:

• not on your nelly    當然不, 絕對不

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 멍청이

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - オオフルマカモメ, ハイイロアホウドリ, 安ワイン

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شيء مؤكد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עיט הדגים‬

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