glarney

English

Etymology

Possibly from glass?

Noun

glarney (plural glarneys)

1. (UK, 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.

Anagrams

• angerly, geranyl, gnarley