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glarney

glarney noun: a kind of patterned glass marble in children's games.

Noun

glarney (plural glarneys)

  1. (UK, dated) A kind of patterned glass marble in children's games.
    • As the word implies the glarneys were glass marbles, but no ball out of an old mineral-water bottle was ever dignified by receiving the name, though such balls were not despised possessions, and had the rank of twoers.1953, Julian Franklyn, The Cockney: a survey of London life and language

Forms of glarney

pluralglarneys

Origin of glarney

Possibly from glass?

Questions about glarney

What does glarney mean?
Glarney means a kind of patterned glass marble in children's games.
What part of speech is glarney?
Glarney is a noun.
What is the plural of glarney?
The plural of glarney is glarneys.

Words near glarney in the dictionary

  1. glarings
  2. glark
  3. glarked
  4. glarking
  5. glarks
  6. glarney
  7. glarneys
  8. Glarus
  9. glary
  10. Glas
  11. Glasbury

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