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Definition of Colly
1. Verb. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty. "Don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Foul, Contaminate, Foul, Pollute, Smear, Slime, Muddy, Muddy Up, Splash, Mire, Muck, Muck Up, Mud, Crock, Blemish, Spot
Antonyms: Clean
Derivative terms: Dirtying, Grime, Soil, Soiling, Soilure
Definition of Colly
1. n. The black grime or soot of coal.
2. n. A kind of dog. See Collie.
Definition of Colly
1. Adjective. (British dialect) black as coal ¹
2. Verb. (transitive archaic) to make black, as with coal ¹
3. Noun. (British dialect) Soot. ¹
4. Noun. (British dialect) A blackbird ¹
5. Noun. (dated) (alternative spelling of collie) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colly
1. to blacken with coal dust [v -LIED, -LYING, -LIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colly
Literary usage of Colly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"EETS. 91). Cp. colly. colly, to blacken. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 8 ; Mids.
Night's D. i. 1. 145 ; ' to colly ..."
2. An universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"'.rf C',ie, от С«П the Black or feof a Pot or Kettle. to dawb with colly or at.
fj lirait} who is £«d /i .,. when /he ..."
3. The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams (1832)
"A suitable person has been found, it is hoped in Mr. Parker, who has lately been
put in charge of the school." On the subsequent removal of the Baboo, colly ..."
4. Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 by Joseph Warren Chapman (1904)
"Philip, and Ruth colly er, Feb. u, 1779.* Ruth, and William Blaney, Sept. 19,
1771.* Susanna, and William Strong, Oct. 26, r 7 90. ..."
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