clancy

See also: Clancy

English

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.

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.