clancy

clancy · noun¹

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 · proper noun²

1. Irish · derived fromMac Fhlannchaidh“descendant of a person named Red Warrior”
2. English todayClancy

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh (“descendant of a person named Red Warrior”), from flann (“blood-red”).

Words from the same roots