kelly
Collocations
4ADJ.
physical, red, red, special, special
She wore a special kelly green dress to the summer wedding last year.
VERB + KELLY
colors, like, names, say, seen
I've never seen kelly green look so good on a summer dress.
KELLY + NOUN
-, dawn, education, gre, murphy, news, owner, throat
Kelly news reported that the new community center would open next month.
PREP.
after, in, on, until, with, with
I stayed with Kelly until the party ended last night.
Definitions
name
A surname from Irish, Anglicised from the Irish Ó Ceallaigh.
A better and more straightforward appeal, though less cool, was made to him by Hugh Kelly, - - - The play was so successful, and Garrick said so much of it that Lord Pembroke was eager to be back from Paris to see it, though he said, with true aristocratic pride, that he could expect very little from such a name as "Kelly", especially if there be an "O'" before it.
One way to see the radicalization of the likes of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly is that they are adopting Fuentes-Lite positions on issues like immigration and vaccines.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
On the walls of the salon are blown-up photos of models with dazzling teeth and ingeniously tousled hair - women with names like Kelly and Dawn, who come from tiny towns in Texas and Washington, who are tall and thin, and who don't appear to be burdened by any pasts to speak of.
One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.
A placename
A placename
noun
Kelly green.
([…] something special in Kelly or red), whose narrow shawl collar has a slight V in back and knots at the throat in front.
[…] red or Kelly, with curved yoke and collar; and garments in skipper, pink, red, black or gray, with covered buttons on a yoked back.
noun
A square or hexagonal pipe that is turned in order to rotate the rotary table of a drilling rig.
A roly-poly (toy).
Tumblers, tilters and kellys are those toys which have a circular base with a weighted end. They sway to and fro and are not knocked completely over. They derive from the East and have various names, but most represent stability in some form or another.
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6A better and more straightforward appeal, though less cool, was made to him by Hugh Kelly, - - - The play was so successful, and Garrick said so much of it that Lord Pembroke was eager to be back from
WiktionaryOne way to see the radicalization of the likes of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly is that they are adopting Fuentes-Lite positions on issues like immigration and vaccines.
WiktionaryOn the walls of the salon are blown-up photos of models with dazzling teeth and ingeniously tousled hair - women with names like Kelly and Dawn, who come from tiny towns in Texas and Washington, who a
Wiktionary([…] something special in Kelly or red), whose narrow shawl collar has a slight V in back and knots at the throat in front.
Wiktionary[…] red or Kelly, with curved yoke and collar; and garments in skipper, pink, red, black or gray, with covered buttons on a yoked back.
WiktionaryTumblers, tilters and kellys are those toys which have a circular base with a weighted end. They sway to and fro and are not knocked completely over. They derive from the East and have various names,
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