See clancy on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "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": [ { "form": "clancies", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "clancy (plural clancies)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English eponyms", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 13, 19 ] ], "ref": "1971, David Ireland, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner:", "text": "They'd had a clancy […]. He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An overflow or spillage." ], "links": [ [ "overflow", "overflow" ], [ "spillage", "spillage" ] ], "wikipedia": [ "Banjo Patterson", "Clancy of the Overflow", "The Man from Snowy River" ] } ], "word": "clancy" }
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