"high nelly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989, Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan, Reprisal: a novel, Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, page 208:",
          "text": "there's an old bike out the back of the barracks. You're welcome to it. It's a bit of a high-nelly, and it needs new tyres, but it will get you around.",
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          "ref": "1989 (Fall) Aidan Higgins. \"Two from Ronda Gorge\" in Four Quarters [issn 0015-9107] Vol.3 [2nd series] No.2 p.53",
          "text": "Now Julia Mahon. with two buckets of pigswill slung over the handlebars of her High Nelly, is off again to talk to her mother in St Michael's cemetery."
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          "ref": "2014 April 1, Philo’s old high nelly to be lovingly restored:",
          "text": "A HIGH Nellie bike once used by Irish rock icon Phil Lynott is being lovingly restored by a group of Carlovians, who are hoping to auction it to raise funds for a local cancer support group. Philomena Lynott found her much-loved 1930s bicycle rusting away in the garden shed and decided to put it to better use.",
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          "ref": "2014 July 6, Tom Prendeville, “High Nelly bicycles making a comeback on the roads again”, in Sunday Independent:",
          "text": "Before the age of the motorcar, practically everyone in Ireland owned a High Nelly.",
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        "An old-fashioned utility bicycle, especially one with a step-through frame and high handlebars providing an erect riding posture"
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        "(Ireland, formerly derogatory, now nostalgic) An old-fashioned utility bicycle, especially one with a step-through frame and high handlebars providing an erect riding posture"
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          "word": "roadster"
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          "word": "high nellie"
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        {
          "word": "high-nelly"
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          "word": "High Nelly"
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          "sense": "old fashioned bicycle",
          "word": "omafiets"
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          "ref": "1989, Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan, Reprisal: a novel, Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, page 208:",
          "text": "there's an old bike out the back of the barracks. You're welcome to it. It's a bit of a high-nelly, and it needs new tyres, but it will get you around.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1989 (Fall) Aidan Higgins. \"Two from Ronda Gorge\" in Four Quarters [issn 0015-9107] Vol.3 [2nd series] No.2 p.53",
          "text": "Now Julia Mahon. with two buckets of pigswill slung over the handlebars of her High Nelly, is off again to talk to her mother in St Michael's cemetery."
        },
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          "ref": "2014 April 1, Philo’s old high nelly to be lovingly restored:",
          "text": "A HIGH Nellie bike once used by Irish rock icon Phil Lynott is being lovingly restored by a group of Carlovians, who are hoping to auction it to raise funds for a local cancer support group. Philomena Lynott found her much-loved 1930s bicycle rusting away in the garden shed and decided to put it to better use.",
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        },
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        "(Ireland, formerly derogatory, now nostalgic) An old-fashioned utility bicycle, especially one with a step-through frame and high handlebars providing an erect riding posture"
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      "word": "roadster"
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    {
      "word": "high nellie"
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    {
      "word": "high-nelly"
    },
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      "word": "High Nelly"
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      "word": "omafiets"
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  "word": "high nelly"
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