colly
/ˈkɑli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.79 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "four colly birds"
- "Thou hast not collied thy face enough, stinkard"
- "Brief as the lighting in the collied night."
- "Not as I could find i' my heart to let him stay i' the coal-hole more nor a minute, but it was enough to colly him all over. . . ."
- "besmeared with soot , colly"
- "Can a Whig lick the feet o' the tyrant wha usurps oor Lord's throne, and accept o' ane indulgence frae him, hurled to him as a bane to a colly dog, binding himself to think as he thinks, and to preach as he wulls it; and to flatter tyranny in church and state, to win a paltry boon!"
Etymology
From Middle English coly, from Old English *coliġ, from Proto-West Germanic *kolig, equivalent to coal + -y. Doublet of coaly.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑli/
- British English: /ˈkɒli/
Usage
- British usage
- Archaic
- Transitive verb
- Dated