WORD OF THE DAY: COLLI-MOLLY

COLLI-MOLLY
also COLLI-MOLLIE, COLLY-MOLLY

​​ADJ.
melancholy ...1603 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
corruption of melancholy

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1603 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...The devil was a little Colli-mollie, and would not come off. Dibdale laies upon him by his soveraigne commaund his privie key to hell, twenty thousand yeeres torment in the deepest pit of hel...."
From: A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures
- Samuel Harsnett

NOTE: The following suggests possible other definitions:
From: Shakespeare, Harsnett, and the Devils of Denham
 - Frank Walsh Brownlow, Samuel Harsnett, 1993