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Colling

name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as a patronymic.
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of colling; hugging or embracing. uncountable

    "`'Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clasping and colling at all.'"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of coll. form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English collyng.

Etymology 2

From Middle English collyng.

Etymology 3

From medieval diminutives of the given names Cole and Coll.

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