Nellie
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2.3
- proper noun
- /ˈnɛli/
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Nellie
- You get some sleep, and then maybe you and Nellie could do something healthy and fun.
Here is the Reason interview with Nellie Bowles.
- Here is the Reason interview with Nellie Bowles.
- What good Doja naked Nelly Furtado.
- So we did and my Labrador Nelly was, this is Nelly.
- So it's at this point that we recorded in a book such as This is the Year that Nellie Died.
- Well, if so, why did Nella or Nellie Harper Lee drop the Nellie, leaving behind the masculine sounding Harper Lee?
- And I was like, Nelly, we're alone in the apartment and she and she said, mom, that's how embarrassing you are.
- Like, I know she a sweetheart because Nelly, I think it's hot in here.
- Shizam and Nelly people, the paint is still wet.
- We've never really had fights amongst maybe the Leo and Nellie thing.
Examples
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In 1919, when she was eleven years old, Nellie Lee's family moved north to Chicago.
Academic text (2002) -
The last time she had seen Nellie was here in this very room.
Fiction book (1998) -
And his wife Nellie said the same thing.
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It's all right, Nellie, you can give her the note.
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There had been huge financial worries then, but he and Nellie had been in it together.
Fiction book (1997) -
Now, that's not very nice, Nellie.
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Then her eyes widened as she took in Nellie's bright red hair.
Fiction book (1995) -
Her oldest daughter, Nellie, died in 1972, and Nellie's husband, Homer Neal, died a few years later.
Academic text (1990) -
For the year 1935-1936, Nellie was promoted to the ninth grade at the high school in Bennington.
Academic text (1990) -
Nellie always loved to play outside with her friends after school.
Synonyms
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3.4
A female given name sometimes short for Ellen or Eleanor
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nellie is a friendly pet name made from Nell + -ie, where Nell is a short form of Eleanor or Helen and the -ie ending means 'little' or 'friendly'. So, Nellie is used as a warm, familiar name for a woman or girl.