COLLY

dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

colly (comparative collier, superlative colliest)

(British, dialect) black as coal

Verb

colly (third-person singular simple present collies, present participle collying, simple past and past participle collied)

(transitive, archaic) to make black, as with coal

Noun

colly (plural collies)

(British, dialect) Soot.

(British, dialect) A blackbird

(dated) Alternative spelling of collie

Source: Wiktionary


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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