glarney

English

Etymology

Possibly from glass?

Noun

glarney (plural glarneys)

  1. (Britain, dated) A kind of patterned glass marble in children's games.
    • 1953, Julian Franklyn, The Cockney: a survey of London life and language
      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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