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

• Rhymes: -aɪ

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.

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”)