glarneyn.
/ˈɡlɑːni/ A glass marble.
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1953 Eng. Digest June 93 The girls play skipping... The boys favour..‘glarneys’.
1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 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.
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n.1953- to plight one's troth
- to plight troth
- to pling the stem
- to plod away on the hoof
- to plod out
- to plot against
- to plot against another
- to plot one variable against
- to plot one variable against another
- to plough a furrow
- to plough a lonely furrow
- to plough a solitary furrow
- to plough around
- to plough back
- to plough down
- to plough in
- to plough into
- to plough or sow fleet
- to plough out
- to plough overthwart
- to plough the sand
- to plough the sands
- to plough the soil up on an edge
- to plough under
- to plough up