clancy

plural clancies

1. An overflow or spillage.

   They'd had a clancy […]. He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere.

   1971, David Ireland, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner

plural Clancys · alternative Clancey · alternative Glancey · alternative Glancy

1. An English surname from Irish.

   Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mum who has been charged with murdering her three children, was suffering from a "command hallucination" at the time, a forensic psychiatrist has told the jury in her trial.

   2026 August 22, Ana Faguy, “Lindsay Clancy suffering 'command hallucination' when she killed children, court hears”, in BBC News, retrieved 03 Sep 2026

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   Prosecutors argued in opening statements that Clancy had “coldly and efficiently executed” her children, doing so with “no hesitation, with deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity and cruelty” after she “drew her husband out of the house, their father, so that she had the opportunity and the time to carry out these murders”.

   2026 September 4, Edward Helmore, Maya Yang, “Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jury deadlocked again”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2026

2. A male given name transferred from the surname.