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Collyweston, a., n., and adv.|ˌkɒlɪˈwɛstən|
Also Colleyweston, Collie weston, Colly Weston, (sense 2) coll(e)y-west.
[The name of a village in Northamptonshire.]
1. Used attrib. or absol. to designate a kind of slate used for roofing.
[1791J. Bridges Hist. & Antiq. Northants. II. 433 In Colly Weston..great quantities of slates are raised for covering houses.] 1870S. Sharp in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XXVI. 371 The calcareous nature of these beds, and..of the Colleyweston Slate. 1906B. Thompson Vict. County Hist. Northampton II. 303/1 Collyweston slate..is found and has been worked at other places besides Collyweston, such as Kirby and Easton, between Collyweston and Stamford. 1949W. G. Hoskins Midland England v. 70 Everyone with an eye for colour and form knows those mellow, lichened roofs of Colly Westons. 1958Listener 14 Aug. 239/3 The roof of Nuffield College is covered with Collyweston stone slates.
2. Usu. spelt coll(e)y-west.
a. adv. Awry, askew; in an opposite or wrong direction.
b. n. Nonsense.
c. adj. Contrary, contradictory. Cf. galley-west adv.
[1587W. Harrison Descrip. England (1877) ii. vii. 168 The Morisco gowns, the Barbarian sleeves, the mandilion worne to Collie weston ward, and the short French breches, make such a comelie vesture.] 1820R. Wilbraham Gloss. Cheshire 22 Colly west, adv., directly contrary. 1855Trans. Philol. Soc. 229 When a Lancashire man is altogether unsuccessful in his schemes, he says that everything goes colley-west with him. 1867P. Kennedy Banks of Boro xxxvii. 287 Oh that's all collywest... What is the good of being an ordained clergyman, if you have not the power of doing something for an unlucky disciple like myself? 1875Nodal & Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial. 87 Never mind him; he ne'er agrees wi' onybody; he's awhiz collywest. 1884R. Holland Gloss. Chester (1886) 75 ‘Am I going right for such and such a place?’ ‘Nao, its collyweston.’ 1891J. Baron Blegburn Dickshonary 17 Wot's th' odds, iv fooak y' took for friends Should turn eawt colly-west? |