Collieshangles is an old Scottish term for a quarrel, possibly deriving from the notion of two collie dogs fighting. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Collieshangles”
Another wonderful bit of Victorian slang, a collie shangles.
A collie shangles, a mess?
Close, close.
It’s a quarrel.
A quarrel.
Queen Victoria herself wrote this in her diary.
A collie shangles.
It’s apparently a Scottish term that has to do with literally a fight between dogs, between collies.
Oh, interesting.
I’ll have to look it up in the Scottish news.
We have a collie shangles.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
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