Clancy
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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
- 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.
- 1971, David Ireland, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner