English Explanatory Dictionary

clancy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An overflow or spillage.
name
  1. An English surname from Irish.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈklænsi/

Word forms

clancy clancies Clancys Clancey Glancey Glancy

Etymology

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.

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