glarney
(ˈglɑːnɪ)
[? Corruption of glassy.]
A glass marble.
| 1953 Eng. Digest June 93 The girls play skipping... The boys favour..‘glarneys’. 1961 Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1109/1 Glarney.., a corruption of glassy. 1969 E. Wilkins Rose-Garden Game 15 Seeing my bowls of taws and glarnies, some people would ask what they were for. |