ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Glarney

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Glarney is a noun meaning (UK, dated) A kind of patterned glass marble in children's games.

Meaning

(UK, dated) A kind of patterned glass marble in children's games.

Example Sentences

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.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glairin, ghoen, glaire, golly, gyrland, grout.

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