different between clancy vs clanny

English

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

clancy (plural clancies)

1. 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.

English

Etymology

clan +? -y

Adjective

clanny (comparative more clanny, superlative most clanny)

1. clannish; socially exclusive
   • 2004, Karin M. Ekström, Helene Brembeck, Elusive Consumption (page 63)

     Each time I use a personal pronoun, I hear a mafioso echo, a clanny, insular, hegemonic reverberation […]

Noun

clanny (plural clannies)

1. (video games, collectible card games, sometimes derogatory) A player who habitually plays the same clan or with the other players on the same team.
   • 2014, Alexis Capitini, "Five Apps You Should Be Playing", Living Out, January 2014, page 28:

     Join a clan to flaunt your victories and be a good sport by donating support troops to fellow clannies.

   • 2018, Rich Eddy, "Casting the Runes", MCV/Develop, October 2019, page 65:

     The festival has given me the chance to meet long term friends and clannies that I've known playing RuneScape.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clanny.