colly

Other forms of colly

past tense or participle

collied

present participle

collying·

third person

collies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about colly

What does colly mean?

colly means "make soiled, filthy, or dirty".

How many syllables are in colly?

colly has 2 syllables: col-ly. The stress falls on "col". In IPA it is /ˈkɑli/.

What is another word for colly?

Close synonyms include dirty, soil, begrime, grime, bemire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colly a common word?

colly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with colly?

4 words rhyme with colly. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.