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Definition of colliednext
chiefly British dialect

collied

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verb

past tense of colly, chiefly British dialect
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collied
Adjective
  • Oily, sooty residue was all over the city.
    Arundathi Nair, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
  • By the closer — a grim, sooty final reckoning with the events of June 13 — the colourful escapism of the Uphaar’s Bollywood posters suddenly looks half a world away.
    Mike McCahill, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
Verb
  • But Jefferson found the experience of sitting there while lesser writers messed with his prose unbearable.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The Giants’ position really, really messed us up in trying to even negotiate with Oakland.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • An arriving officer arrested the Parma Heights resident, who was crocked, for disorderly conduct.
    John Benson, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Although the treaty promised an annuity, payments were often late or siphoned off to crocked traders.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 8 Aug. 2019
Verb
  • Jess Scheer, the CEO of The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), says there’s a strong association between obsessive tracking and disordered eating and eating disorders.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 24 Apr. 2026
  • When that authority tells a young person that their identity is disordered and must be changed, the harm isn’t just theoretical.
    A.J. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • All four options have free trials, but even after the trials end, their monthly prices aren’t too shabby.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Not too shabby for a former three-star.
    Grace Raynor, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Warsh believes markets have driven those rates up in response to muddled policy from the Fed, including the recent spike in inflation after Covid — but going much further back, too.
    Matt Peterson, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
  • This switch-up to the formula makes new episodes of The Comeback compelling to watch, even as the season’s big-picture storytelling remains a bit muddled.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The experiences are jumbled in my mind, and the Stations become a story told over many single-frame images, just like any comic book.
    Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • But there are just a half-dozen or so teams to have jumbled their top three spots in the order as much as the Padres and/or used six players at any spot.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Chaucer, who wrote in Middle English, was famously raunchy, and this fart has been rumbling since the fourteenth century.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • Parker teased that the movie is raunchier than Lopez’s past romantic comedies, which include Maid in Manhattan, The Wedding Plannerand Monster-in-Law.
    Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Collied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collied. Accessed 7 May. 2026.

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