cly

cly

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Eastern Highland Chatino.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Eastern Highland Chatino terms

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”)).

Alternatively referred by some to Dutch kleed (“a garment”); "to fake a cly" was to take a garment.

• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophone: Cley

cly (third-person singular simple present clies, present participle clying, simple past and past participle clied)

1. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To seize; to steal.
   • 1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎^[1], published 1896, page 34:

     Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's prig in sport.

• cloyer
• clye (“to scratch”)

cly (plural clies)

1. (slang, obsolete) A person's pocket.

• clyfaker
• clyfaking
• frisk someone's cly

• LyC, Lyc, YCL, cyl.

Borrowed from English cry.

cly

1. to cry, be sad

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡slɪ]

cly

1. instrumental plural of clo

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /klɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /kliː/

cly

1. obsolete form of clo (“(s/he) locks, closes”)