name
Meaning 1
An English surname from Irish.
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Standard Lemma guide
clancy
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Pronunciation
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US: /ˈklænsi/
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CMU ARPABET: K L AE1 N S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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noun
Meaning 3
An overflow or spillage.
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History
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh (“descendant of a person named Red Warrior”), from flann (“blood-red”).
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.