clancy

nounattested in dialogue

An overflow or spillage.

noun

1
An overflow or spillage.
They'd had a clancy […]. He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere.

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.

Forms

plural: clancies

clamp · A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things…Clamp · A surname.clan · A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in…

clancy · An overflow or spillage.

Clancy · An English surname from Irish.clang · A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal…clanging · A noise that clangs.

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