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English
Noun
collieshangie (plural collieshangies)
- Alternative form of collie-shangie
1922, John Sillars, The McBrides: A Romance of Arran:"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."
Scots
Noun
collieshangie (plural collieshangies)
- Alternative form of collie-shangie
1887, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables: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 dat an' mony a lang day after; and just in the hettest o' the collieshangie, wha suld come up (for her sins) but the new minister.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2008 March 4, Robert Peffers, “Re: It isnae fair.......”, in scot.politics (Usenet):As my Old Grannie would have put it, "It taks twa dugs tae hae a collieshangie", and it is rather stupid of Westminster to claim these fall-outs are all one sided.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)