different between clancy vs clanky

English

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.

clancy (plural clancies)

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.

clank +? -y

clanky (comparative clankier, superlative clankiest)

Making a clanking metallic sound.
My father's first car was a clanky old Volkswagen Beetle.
Providing audible indication of imminent mechanical failure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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