"coll" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /kɒl/ Forms: colls [present, singular, third-person], colling [participle, present], colled [participle, past], colled [past]
Rhymes: -ɒl Etymology: From Middle English collen, from Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|collen}} Middle English collen, {{der|en|fro|coler}} Old French coler, {{der|en|la|ad}} Latin ad Head templates: {{en-verb}} coll (third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to hug or embrace): halata (Finnish), syleillä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-coll-en-verb-o2BktR5c Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 3 13 1 15 5 1 1 30 1 3 9 2 1 3 1 2 3 1 3 2 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 17 1 20 5 1 1 26 1 2 11 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1

Inflected forms

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      },
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      "form": "colled",
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          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 82:",
          "text": "'You couldn't expect her to throw her arms round 'ee, an' to kiss and to coll 'ee all at once.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:",
          "text": "They kissed and colled in parks and fields and, better, a / Warm bed, her own.",
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        "To hug or embrace."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace."
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          "sense": "to hug or embrace",
          "word": "halata"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
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      "ipa": "/kɒl/"
    },
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      "homophone": "col"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "call (cot–caught merger)"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɒl"
    }
  ],
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        "past"
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      "form": "colled",
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    },
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    {
      "homophone": "call (cot–caught merger)"
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      "rhymes": "-ɒl"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to hug or embrace",
      "word": "halata"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to hug or embrace",
      "word": "syleillä"
    }
  ],
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}

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