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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
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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