"high nelly" meaning in English

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      "form": "high nellies",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan, Reprisal: a novel, Wolfhound Press, 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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."
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "An old-fashioned utility bicycle, especially one with a step-through frame and high handlebars providing an erect riding posture"
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "roadster"
        },
        {
          "word": "high nellie"
        },
        {
          "word": "high-nelly"
        },
        {
          "word": "High Nelly"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "old fashioned bicycle",
          "word": "omafiets"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "high nelly"
}

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  "pos": "noun",
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        "English derogatory terms",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan, Reprisal: a novel, Wolfhound Press, 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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."
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old-fashioned utility bicycle, especially one with a step-through frame and high handlebars providing an erect riding posture"
      ],
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "formerly derogatory; now nostalgic; formerly derogatory; now nostalgic",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "roadster"
    },
    {
      "word": "high nellie"
    },
    {
      "word": "high-nelly"
    },
    {
      "word": "High Nelly"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "old fashioned bicycle",
      "word": "omafiets"
    }
  ],
  "word": "high nelly"
}