1650s, possibly from dialectal coaly "coal-black," the color of some breeds (compare colley, "sheep with black face and legs," attested from 1793; Middle English colfox, "coal-fox," a variety of fox with tail and both ears tipped with black; and colley, Somerset dialectal name for "blackbird"). Or from Scandinavian proper name Colle, which is known to have been applied to dogs in Middle English ("Ran Colle our dogge, and Talbot, and Gerlond" [Chaucer]); or perhaps a convergence of the two.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. It was a lovely dog. It was a cross between a collie and a golden retriever.
那條狗可愛(ài)極了,是柯利牧羊犬和金毛獵犬的雜交品種。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. The collie came across the yard, sniffing around the truck.