Clancy

//ˈklænsi// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An overflow or spillage.

    "They'd had a clancy […]. He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname from Irish.
  2. 2
    A male given name transferred from the surname.

Example

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"They'd had a clancy […]. He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Clancy of the Overflow, a character in a poem of that name (also in The Man from Snowy River) by Australian poet Banjo Patterson.

Etymology 2

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh (“descendant of a person named Red Warrior”), from flann (“blood-red”).

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