† colly-clogger Obs.
[? = colly grimy + clogger one that clogs or cumbers; perhaps it ought to be read as two words coaly clogger.]
| 1537 T. Wylley to Cromwell in Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) III. 240, note, The priests..have disdained me ever since I made a play against the Pope's councillors, Error Colly clogger of conscience, and Incredulity. |