Noun: cly
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cly
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Probably related to claw (compare Low German kleien, klaien (“to claw, scratch, grasp, seize”), dialectal German klauen, kläuen, kleuen (“to steal”), German klauen (“to steal, rip off”)).
2. Alternatively referred by some to Dutch kleed (“a garment”); "to fake a cly" was to take a garment. See: German Nouns '
klauen', German Nouns '
klauen', Dutch Nouns '
kleed'.