COLLIED

COLLY

dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire

(verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty; “don’t soil your clothes when you play outside!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

collied

simple past tense and past participle of colly

Anagrams

• Cedillo, codille, collide

Source: Wiktionary


Col"lied, p. & a.

Definition: Darkened. See Colly, v. t.

COLLY

Col"ly, n. Etym: [From Coal.]

Definition: The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] Burton.

Col"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collied; p. pr. & vb. n. Collying.]

Definition: To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

Col"ly, n.

Definition: A kind of dog. See Collie.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

27 February 2025

SUMMIT

(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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