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Etymology
From Middle English clicchinge. Compare English clutch (“group, bunch”). The middle <-ger-> may be derived from the second <c>, as if pronounced /ˈklik.t͡ʃing/.
Pronunciation
Noun
clugercheen
- flock, clutch, crowd
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page 88:A clugercheen gother: all, ing pile an in heep,- A crowd gathered up: all, in pile and in heap,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 30