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sholtie

sholtie is the alternative form of Sheltie.

Meaning of Sheltie

Noun

Sheltie (plural Shelties)

  1. A Shetland pony; by extension, any small pony.
    • You, sir, doubtless, are well mounted, and I, for the present, travel upon foot, or on a Highland shelty, that does not help me much faster forward.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees...
  2. A Shetland sheepdog.
  3. (rare) A Shetlander.

Forms of sholtie

pluralsholties

Questions about sholtie

What is sholtie the alternative form of?
Sholtie is the alternative form of Sheltie.

Words near sholtie in the dictionary

  1. Sholls
  2. Sholly
  3. Shollys
  4. sholom
  5. sholoms
  6. sholtie
  7. sholties
  8. Sholto
  9. Sholts
  10. sholy
  11. Shoma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sholtie (page history and authors); Sheltie (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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