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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| nervous Nellie |
| SYLLABICATION: | nervous Nel·lie |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  n l  |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or nervous Nel·ly |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. nervous Nel·lies Informal An unduly timid or anxious person. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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