clashy

adj, noun — 3 senses

clashy

adj

/ˈklæʃi/

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

1

UK, Dialectal, Obsolete Wet, rainy; muddy.

... [not] the dress he kept for extra "clashy and clarty wark," but just his everyday fawn-coloured jeans and corduroys […]1866, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Larton of Greyrigg: a Novel, page 271:
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[…]1876, William Dickinson, Cumbriana; Or, Fragments of Cumbrian Life, page 81:

2 more examples

... t' wedder wes clashy an t' rooads clarty.1887, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the dialects of Westmorland, page 38:
... it's nobbut a clashy night.1892, Mrs. Humphry Ward, The History of David Grieve, page 203:

2

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

Derived terms: clashy-clashy

clashy

noun

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

1

Archaic A khalasi.

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