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nelliest

nelliest is the superlative form of nelly.

Meaning of nelly

Adjective

nelly (comparative nellier, superlative nelliest)

  1. (slang) Unmanly; 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.1979 April 21, Greg Jackson, “He Looks Like Tarzan But He Talks Like Jane”, in Gay Community News, page 17

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Questions about nelliest

What is nelliest the superlative form of?
Nelliest is the superlative form of nelly.

Words near nelliest in the dictionary

  1. Nell
  2. Nelle
  3. nellie
  4. nellier
  5. nellies
  6. nelliest
  7. Nelligan
  8. Nelligans
  9. Nelligen
  10. Nellim
  11. Nellore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nelliest (page history and authors); nelly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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