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nelly; nellie
adjective
extremely, even outrageously, effeminate US- “Shut your nelly mouth, Mary,” said the Negro queen–“or I’ll have you eight-sixed out of this bar[.]” — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 186, 1963
- Horace had chosen show business because it was best for him since he was so obviously nellie... — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 34, 1965
- I had an address book a mile long, packed with tricks from “drag queens” to rough trade, old aunties, little nellie queens that stayed home with mother. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 78, 1965
- I can do without your goddamn spit all over my telephone, you nellie coward. — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, p. 148, 1968
- Carey-Lee, secure in his knowledge that he is loved, does not throw a “bitch fit” when his nellie neighbor, Tommy (Edward Dunn) intimates that something more than a simple “visit” may have taken place while he was away. — Screw, p. 20, 27 October 1969
- And he wanted to act what we call nelly, you know, act real feminine. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 400, 1972
- He shed his navy-blue cotton parka, submitted to the indignity of women’s skates (white, with nelly-looking tassels) and clopped his way awkwardly to the edge of the rink. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 124, 1978
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