Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pocket.
- noun Goose-grass.
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Examples
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Effondrer, to thrash a man, to give him what for; otolondrer, to annoy or to "spur" him; cambrioler, doing anything in a room; aubert, money; Gironde, a beauty (the name of a river of Languedoc); fouillousse, a pocket -- a "cly" -- are all French of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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CLIED: Stolen, from the obscure verb 'cly', meaning
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Inevitably, the term “client” was shortened to cly.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Inevitably, the term “client” was shortened to cly.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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You referred to the expression frisking a cly as Cockney rhyming slang.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The subtle pat-down before the actual snatch was called frisking the cly.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The subtle pat-down before the actual snatch was called frisking the cly.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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You referred to the expression frisking a cly as Cockney rhyming slang.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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That sense goes back to Cockney rhyming slang, “to frisk a cly,” the allusion to which escapes me.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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That sense goes back to Cockney rhyming slang, “to frisk a cly,” the allusion to which escapes me.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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(n, Bot.): Somersetshire dialect word for a species of bedstraw Galium aperine.
Many other names for this plant have been recorded, including Airess, Airif, Airup, Aparine, Bedstraw, Beggar Lice, Beggar Weed, Bleedy Tongues, Blind Tongue, Bur, Bur-head, Bur-weed, Catch-rogue, Catch-weed, Chickweed, Claiton, Claver-grass, Cleavers, Cleden, Cleeiton, Cleggers, Clever-grass, Clider, Cling-rascal, Clitch Buttons, Clite, Clitheren, Clits, Cliver, Clyders, Errif, Geckdor, Gux Grass, Gentleman's Tormentors, Goosebill, Goose-grass, Goose-heiriffe, Gooseshare, Goose Tongue, Gosling Grass, Gosling Scrotch, Gosling Weed, Grip-grass, Gull-grass, Gye, Hair-weed, Harif, Haritch, Harvest Lice, Hedge-burs, Jack-in-the-hedge, Lizzy-run-up-the-hedge, Robin-in-the-hedge, Robin-run-up-the-dyke, Soldiers' Buttons, Stick-a-back, Stickle Back, Sweethearts' Tivers, Tongue Bleeder, Withers Pail, Willy-run-hedge.
June 30, 2009