出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/11/10 16:49 UTC 版)
Probably related to claw (compare Low German kleien, klaien (“to claw, scratch, grasp, seize”), dialectal German klauen, kläuen, kleuen (“to steal”), German klauen (“to steal, rip off”)).
Alternatively referred by some to Dutch kleed (“a garment”); "to fake a cly" was to take a garment.
cly (third-person singular simple present clies, present participle clying, simple past and past participle clied)