Meaning of collie-shangie | Babel Free

Definitions

A loud quarrelsome fight.

Scotland, archaic

Examples

“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."”

“But though the weaver tried to dance all desire of mischief down, and manfully vowed that he would make vengeance the work of another day, such seemed not the pleasure of the less philosophic spirits of the company. They had counted on a collie-shangie, and resolved to have one.”

“At five minutes to eleven rode off with Beatrice, good Sharp going with us and having occasional "collie-shangies" with collies when we came near cottages (A. Thomson and Kennedy following).”

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