nelly

(noun, adjective)

adjective

1. (slang) Unmanly, effeminate.

noun

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Life.

2. (derogatory, slang) An effeminate man.

3. (Britain, slang) A silly person.

4. A common name for the giant petrels, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli