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collieshangie

collieshangie is the alternative form 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

Forms of collieshangie

pluralcollieshangies

Questions about collieshangie

What is collieshangie the alternative form of?
Collieshangie is the alternative form of collie-shangie.

Words near collieshangie in the dictionary

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

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