glarney
English
editEtymology
editPossibly from glass?
Noun
editglarney (plural glarneys)
- (UK, dated) A kind of patterned glass marble in children's games.
- 1953, Julian Franklyn, The Cockney: a survey of London life and language:
- As the word implies the glarneys were glass marbles, but no ball out of an old mineral-water bottle was ever dignified by receiving the name, though such balls were not despised possessions, and had the rank of twoers.