collie-shangie

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A loud quarrelsome fight. Scotland,archaic
    — 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."

词形变化

collie-shangies plural collieshangie alternative

词源

From Scots collie-shangie, from collie (“a breed of dog”), and shangie (“an object tied to a dog's tail”). The frustration of having a shangie attached made the highly energetic collies irritable and likely to fight.
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