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plural glarneys
(UK, dated) A kind of patterned glass marble in children's games. quotations examples
As the word implies the glarneys were glass marbles, but no ball out of an old mineral-water bottle was ever dignified by receiving the name, though such balls were not despised possessions, and had the rank of twoers.
1953, Julian Franklyn, The Cockney: a survey of London life and language