clancy
See also: Clancy
English
editEtymology
editFrom Clancy of the Overflow, a character in a poem of that name (also in The Man from Snowy River) by Australian poet Banjo Patterson.
Noun
editclancy (plural clancies)
- 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.