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Originally posted by Germany76:
P.S. Is Nellie Walter rhyming slang or am I mssing out on something else?
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very close Vera
I actually said Nellie and Walter as two separate items (Walter being the name of our revered friend here borderstone)
and not on your Nellie is a bit of UK slang
I have now googled and found
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/n.htm
where I read "nellie"
Noun. 1. An effeminate or homosexual male. Derog.
2. A feeble, soft person. Derog.
* Also spelt nelly.
(dicsclaimer in no way did I mean to infer that Mr Stone Border was any of those derog though he may be!!!)
nor was I inferring anything about the expression immediately above Nellie which is
needle dick
That page confirms the general rule that if you do not know what a word means such as "ninny" it is probably yet another word for an idiot
Although quite a few on that particular listing are euphonisms for effeminate personages example nancy
and that page also told me:-
not on your Nellie!
Exclam. No way! Not on your life! A shortening of the rhyming slang not on your nellie duff, where nellie duff rhymes on puff which refers to life, hence not on your life. [1940s]
rathr a convoluted association methinks but then those Cockney folk are wonderfully inventive people!!!
[ May 22, 2007, 18:04: Message edited by: johnfowles ]