Clancy

Origin

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.

Full definition of clancy

Noun

1. An overflow or spillage.
• 1971, David Ireland, The Unknown Industrial PrisonerThey'd had a clancy .... He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere.''