What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Ollied vs Collied - What's the difference?

ollied | collied |

As verbs the difference between ollied and collied

is that ollied is past tense of ollie while collied is past tense of colly.

ollied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ollie)

    • ollie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (snowboarding, skateboarding) a manoeuvre wherein one catches air by lifting the front and tail ends off the ground at the same time; a hop.

    • Verb

  • To perform an ollie.
    • English eponyms

    collied

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (colly)

    • Anagrams

    *

    colly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (British, dialect) black as coal
    • -

    Verb

  • (archaic) to make black, as with coal
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Thou hast not collied thy face enough.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Brief as the lighting in the collied night.
  • *

    • Noun

    (collies)
  • (British, dialect) Soot.
    • (Burton)
  • (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 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!}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1847 , author=Thomas Miller , title=The Boy's Country Book , page=80 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.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1861 , author=Francis Galton , title=Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860 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. , }}

    See also

    * collywobbles