Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make foul or dirty; grime, as with the smut of coal; blacken.
- noun See
collie . - noun The black grime or soot of coal or burned wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The black grime or soot of coal.
- noun A kind of dog. See
collie . - transitive verb Archaic. To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective UK, dialect
black ascoal - verb transitive, archaic to make
black , as withcoal - noun UK, dialect
Soot . - noun UK, dialect A
blackbird - noun dated Alternative spelling of
collie .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Etymologies
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Examples
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"colly" birds, colly referring to soot or coal black.
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For the fourth day colly birds - or is it calling birds?'
Stephenie Foster: 12 Days of Giving to Support Women and Girls Globally Stephenie Foster 2011
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For the fourth day colly birds - or is it calling birds?'
Stephenie Foster: 12 Days of Giving to Support Women and Girls Globally Stephenie Foster 2011
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For the fourth day colly birds - or is it calling birds?'
Stephenie Foster: 12 Days of Giving to Support Women and Girls Globally Stephenie Foster 2011
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• Remember to give your true love four colly/calling birds on this fourth day of Christmas.
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He's the raven master who looks after nine very large, very important colly birds -- black ravens.
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That was a slang name for the blackbird -- calling birds, colly birds.
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Nao no kitteh but haz border colly, 2 big 2 lift 2 seeling, sew whee send hur 2 chais da ebil skwerls orf da burds fooders.
Spider cat, Spider cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Dey iz after teh French hens an teh colly birds an teh partridge an teh swans an teh milk frum teh milkmayds!
Alfred Hitchcock presents - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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You mean, he may get himself up as a colly-something - a beetle-lover - and go and sit solemnly in the meetings at the Town Hall, while everyone is looking for him elsewhere.
The Mystery of the Missing Man Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1956
sarra commented on the word colly
The Twelve Days of Christmas: four colly birds (=blackbirds), not calling birds.
December 12, 2008