Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A noisy quarrel or dispute; a confused uproar.
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- noun Alternative form of
collie-shangie .
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Examples
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"We've been combin" the town for ye, Uncle Jamie, and Fergus sure ye'd been caught up in the collieshangie yonder and maimed or killed.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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"There will be the collieshangie when they see our marks in the snaw, but they'll founder their horses on the brae and ill-use time tae nae purpose, if just we get ower the common."
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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"There's nae doot they're gey and chief got sin! he cam 'back, and she foun' oot wha created the collieshangie."
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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The carline skirled till ye could hear her at the Hangin 'Shaw, and she focht like ten; there was mony a guidwife bure the mark of her neist day an' mony a lang day after; and just in the hettest o 'the collieshangie, wha suld come up (for his sins) but the new minister.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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But there is just the one thing that I wish you would bear in view, if it was only long enough to discuss it quietly; for there is going to be a collieshangie when we two get home.
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The carline skirled till ye could hear her at the Hangin 'Shaw, and she focht like ten; there was mony a guid wife bure the mark of her neist day an' mony a lang day after; and just in the hettest o 'the collieshangie, wha suld come up (for his sins) but the new minister.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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But there is just the one thing that I wish you would bear in view, if it was only long enough to discuss it quietly; for there is going to be a collieshangie when we two get home.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I had never heard of a collieshangie in my days, but with the racket all about us in the city, I could have no doubt as to the man's meaning.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Pulling around me a sort of great-coat I had made of my blanket, to cover my sulphur-coloured livery, -- 'A friend! 'said I.' What like's all this collieshangie? 'said he.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Shaw, and she focht like ten; there was mony a guidwife bure the mark of her neist day an 'mony a lang day after; and just in the hettest o' the collieshangie, wha suld come up (for his sins) but the new minister.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
bilby commented on the word collieshangie
Scots - a loud commotion; disorder; an argument.
December 26, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word collieshangie
"He frowned. 'There was an awful collieshangie, but I couldna hear much. Auntie ... I mean Laoghaire—she doesna seem to know how to fight properly, like my mam and Uncle Jamie. She just weeps and wails a lot. Mam says she snivels,' he added."
—Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (NY: Dell, 1994), 539
January 14, 2010