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collies

collies is the plural of collie.

collies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of colly.

Meaning of collie

Noun

collie (plural collies)

  1. Any of various breeds of dog originating in Scotland and England as sheepdogs

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Meaning of colly

Verb

colly (third-person singular simple present collies, present participle collying, simple past and past participle collied)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To make black, as with coal.
    • Thou hast not collied thy face enough, stinkard1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv

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Proper noun capitalized: Collies

Collies

  1. (plural) plural of Collie

Phrases with collies

Questions about collies

What is collies the plural of?
Collies is the plural of collie.
What part of speech is collies?
Collies is a proper noun.

Words near collies in the dictionary

  1. colliers
  2. Colliers Wood
  3. Collierville
  4. colliery
  5. Colliery Row
  6. collies
  7. collieshangie
  8. collieshangies
  9. colliest
  10. colliferous
  11. colliflower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collies (page history and authors); Collies (page history and authors); collie (page history and authors); colly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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