Colly vs Molly - What's the difference?
colly | molly |
(British, dialect) black as coal
(archaic) to make black, as with coal
* Ben Jonson
* Shakespeare
*
(British, dialect) Soot.
(British, dialect) A blackbird
(dated)
* {{quote-book
, year=1833
, author=William Craig Brownlee
, title=The Whigs of Scotland: Or, The Last of the Stuarts, vol. 2
, page=30
* {{quote-book
, year=1847
, author=Thomas Miller
, title=The Boy's Country Book
, page=80
* {{quote-book
, year=1861
, author=Francis Galton
, title=Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860
A woman or girl, especially of low status.
(slang) An effeminate male, a male homosexual.
(slang) Pure MDMA powder.
A fish of the genus Poecilia .
A mollemoke.
A female cat; a she-cat.
A molly bolt.
In lang=en terms the difference between colly and molly
is that colly is an alternative spelling of lang=en while molly is pure MDMA powder.As nouns the difference between colly and molly
is that colly is soot while molly is a woman or girl, especially of low status.As an adjective colly
is black as coal.As a verb colly
is to make black, as with coal.As a proper noun Molly is
{{given name|female}.colly
English
Adjective
(er)- -
Verb
- Thou hast not collied thy face enough.
- Brief as the lighting in the collied night.
Noun
(collies)- (Burton)
citation, passage=Can a Whig lick the feet o' the tyrant wha usurps oor Lord's throne, and accept o' ane indulgence frae him, hurled to him as a bane to a colly dog , binding himself to think as he thinks, and to preach as he wulls it; and to flatter tyranny in church and state, to win a paltry boon!}}
citation, passage=On the moors and mountains of Scotland the shepherd sends out his colly with the sheep, far out of his sight, conscious that when he sets out to look for them, they will be found herded safely together.}}
citation, page=139 , passage=Colly dog's early training is a rude one, but I think that it is mutual, and that the shepherd picks up a good deal of dog during the process. , }}
