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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