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collie-shangies

collie-shangies is the plural of collie-shangie.

Meaning of collie-shangie

Noun

collie-shangie (plural collie-shangies)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) A loud quarrelsome fight.
    • She therefore glanced at a table-cloth not quite clean, and conned over her proposed supper a minute or two, before, patting her husband on the shoulder, she bade him sit down for "a hard-headed loon, that was aye bringing himsell and other folk into collie-shangies."1819, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, page 30

Questions about collie-shangies

What is collie-shangies the plural of?
Collie-shangies is the plural of collie-shangie.

Words near collie-shangies in the dictionary

  1. colliding
  2. collidings
  3. collie
  4. collie eye anomaly
  5. collie-shangie
  6. collie-shangies
  7. collied
  8. collielike
  9. collier
  10. Collier County
  11. Collier Street

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