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.
例文
1. It was a lovely dog.It was a cross between a collie and a golden retriever.
その犬はとても可愛くて、コリー牧羊犬とゴールデンレトリバーの交雑種です。
2.The collie came across the yard,sniffing around the truck.
子犬が庭を通って走ってきてトラックを囲んで嗅いでいた。
-廊橋遺夢
3.A pheasant called from the fields.Jack,the collie ,barked twice out in the yard.
田野ではキジの鳴き声がして、ジャック----その子犬----庭で2回吠えた。dd>-廊橋遺夢
4.Methods 38 cases of specimens of lhtty heartall COllie from autopsy.