nelly

substantivosubstantivoadjetivoatestado nos diálogos

Reino Unido//nɛli//

A person's life.

substantivo

1
calãoA person's life.

Etimologia

Shortened from Nelly Duff, for puff, i.e. breath of life.

substantivo

1
calãoAn effeminate homosexual man.
2
calãoA silly person.
3
A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli.

Etimologia

From the woman's name Nelly.

adjetivo

1
calãoUnmanly; effeminate.
From Christopher Street to Castro Street, these men are peddling the same message. I'm butch, a macho man. Well, it ain't necessarily so. In fact, as a general rule of thumb, the butcher the get-up, the nellier the wearer.
Some of the nelliest boys unable to get or keep a job, some of the toughest girls breaking their bodies trying to do men's work.

Formas

plural: nellies
comparativo: nellier
superlativo: nelliest

neither · Not one of two; not either; not one or the other.Nell · A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, or…Nellie · A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, Helen,…

nelly · A person's life.

Nelly · One of the Frazier Islands where nellies breed.nelson · A score of 111, sometimes considered to be unlucky.Nelson · A surname originating as a patronymic.

As páginas vizinhas — A ordem alfabética segue as regras da língua, não o valor dos bytes: um acento só desempata entre duas palavras de resto idênticas, e o espanhol trata o Ñ como uma letra à parte.