Usually means: Soot, dirt; blacken with soot.
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  1. colly: Merriam-Webster
  2. colly: Collins English Dictionary
  3. colly: Vocabulary.com
  4. Colly, colly: Wordnik
  5. colly: Wiktionary
  6. colly: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. colly: Dictionary.com
  8. Colly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Colly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. colly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. colly: Rhymezone
  12. Colly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. colly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. colly: FreeDictionary.org
  15. colly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. colly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colly: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. colly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Colly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (colly)

adjective:  (British, dialect) Black as coal.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To make black, as with coal.
noun:  (British, dialect) Soot.
noun:  (British, dialect) A blackbird
noun:  (dated) Alternative spelling of collie [Any of various breeds of dog originating in Scotland and England as sheepdogs]

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