clashy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklæʃi/

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• Rhymes: -æʃi

Etymology 1

From clash +‎ -y. Sense 1 is from the dialectal use of clash for a heavy rainfall.

Adjective

clashy (comparative clashier, superlative clashiest)

1. (obsolete, UK dialectal) Wet, rainy; muddy.
   • 1866, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Larton of Greyrigg: a Novel, page 271:

     ... [not] the dress he kept for extra "clashy and clarty wark," but just his everyday fawn-coloured jeans and corduroys  […]

   • 1876, William Dickinson, Cumbriana; Or, Fragments of Cumbrian Life, page 81:

     She looked up and said, "It's rayder clashy." He assented to her remark for the rain was pouring down, and the roads were muddy and slippery […]

   • 1887, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the dialects of Westmorland, page 38:

     ... t' wedder wes clashy an t' rooads clarty.

   • 1892, Mrs. Humphry Ward, The History of David Grieve, page 203:

     ... it's nobbut a clashy night.

2. (informal) That clash(es), that do(es) not match or fit stylistically.

Derived terms

• clashy-clashy

Etymology 2

A corruption of a form similar to khalasi, likely Marathi खलाशी (khalāśī).

Noun

clashy (plural clashies)

1. (archaic) A khalasi.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Achlys