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cleg

/klɛɡ/

cleg noun: a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid.

cleg: a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid
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Noun (1)

cleg (plural clegs)

  1. (England, Scotland, dialectal) a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid
    • Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.1657, Thomas Burton, Diary, section I
    • Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39

Noun (2)

cleg (plural clegs)

  1. (dialectal) A light breeze.

cleg meaning in Tamil

cleg in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பூச்சிகளில், இது முக்கியமானதொரு இனமாகும்

Forms of cleg

pluralclegs
alternative formclegg
alternative formgleg

Origin of cleg

From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”); compare Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).

Words that rhyme with cleg

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Questions about cleg

What does cleg mean?
Cleg means a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid.
What is cleg in Tamil?
Cleg in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பூச்சிகளில், இது முக்கியமானதொரு இனமாகும். See Cleg meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cleg?
Cleg is a noun.
How do you pronounce cleg?
Cleg is pronounced /klɛɡ/.
What is the plural of cleg?
The plural of cleg is clegs.

Words near cleg in the dictionary

  1. cleftkarren
  2. clefts
  3. clefts of Venus
  4. cleftstone
  5. cleftstones
  6. cleg
  7. Cleganebowl
  8. clegg
  9. Cleggmania
  10. cleggs
  11. Cleghorn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleg (page history and authors); cleg (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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