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Clancy

Clancy

See also: clancy

English

Proper noun

Clancy

  1. An English surname​.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

clancy

clancy

See also: Clancy

English

Noun

clancy ‎(plural clancies)

  1. An overflow or spillage.
    • 1971, David Ireland, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
      They'd had a clancy […]. He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere.

Etymology

Anglicization of the Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh "descendant of a person named Red Warrior".

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈklænsi/

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