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Meanings of colly in English

Portuguese
macular
Catalan
sollar

Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.

macular
Usage of colly in English
1
I would rather bring up a colly than a man.
Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
2
Even a Times subscriber can get colly-wobbles & the lady phoned the Times asking what had gone wrong.
The new yorker
3
PC's give me the colly-wobbles, too.
Vigorish
4
Yet another case of the Friday colly-wobbles as stock markets tumbled in fear of yet another end-of-week sell-off on Wall Street.
The Irish Times
5
To-morrow you quit work, and we move to the Ritz-they know me there, and-thisdelightful, home-like grotto of yours gives me the colly-wabbles.
The Auction Block
6
Even now, on the Bank Holiday Monday, it gave him the colly-wobbles to think how close he'd been to hanging from a Kildare yard-arm.
The Irish Times
7
Of the sixteen other collies the majority were sables of divers shades.
His Dog
8
Mr. W. is always training two or three collies to be Lassie.
The new yorker
9
That broke the poor old man's heart, Colly: he died of it.
The Doctor's Dilemma
10
When I was 19, my eldest brother Colly Baker died by suicide.
The Irish Times
11
Don't move a step, Bill, and we may have Colly liberated yet.
The Boy Slaves
12
Around the corner of the house tore the two returning collies.
Further Adventures of Lad
13
All good collies respond in semi-psychic fashion to the moods of their masters.
Further Adventures of Lad
14
There I had played with the collies and the grey rabbits.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
15
There were but three collies on the Place, in those days.
Further Adventures of Lad
16
Border collies had a bit of studio airtime, so did spaniels.
The Guardian
Frequent collocations
Translations for colly
Colly through the time