clancy

/ˈklænsi/

Etymology

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

name

An English surname from Irish.
A male given name transferred from the surname.

noun

An overflow or spillage.“They'd had a clancy […]. He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere.”