Klanny

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English

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Etymology

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Klan +‎ -y

Adjective

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Klanny (comparative more Klanny, superlative most Klanny)

  1. (informal) Resembling or reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan.
    • 1972, G. Seldes, You Can't Do That:
      [] which might ridicule out of existence the Klanny red hood with which the feminine patriots had replaced the original old fashioned liberty cap.
    • 2010, Terry Dugan, Rufus "Junior" Hickman, The Hick Arrives at the Tea Party (page 105)
      “We are here to take you on a spiritual journey and not discuss our choice of robes that I will, for the record, say looked a little Klanny when we first put them on.”