gleg

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɛɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1

Verb

gleg (third-person singular simple present glegs, present participle glegging, simple past and past participle glegged)

1. (Northern England) To glance.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:glance

Noun

gleg (plural glegs)

1. (now rare, Northern England) A look or glance.
   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     And besides, you'd do the tomb so well. Everybody feels as if they want a gleg at the skeleton in your vault.

     Penguin 2006, p. 308

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

gleg (plural glegs)

1. Alternative form of cleg.

Etymology 3

Adjective

gleg (comparative glegger, superlative gleggest)

1. (Scotland) Smart; quick; brisk.
   • 1856, Thomas Hamilton, The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, page 279:

     One patted her neck, and assured her she was the gleggest and bonniest young thing she had ever seen.

Derived terms

• glegly
• glegness

Anagrams

• Legg