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Klanny en · ADJ

Etymology

From Klan + -y.

Meanings

  1. (informal) Resembling or reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan.
    • We are here to take you on a spiritual journey and not discuss our choice of robes that I will, for the record, say looked a little Klanny when we first put them on. 2010, Terry Dugan, Rufus "Junior" Hickman, The Hick Arrives at the Tea Party (page 105)
    • […] which might ridicule out of existence the Klanny red hood with which the feminine patriots had replaced the original old fashioned liberty cap. 1972, G. Seldes, You Can't Do That:

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