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clegg

clegg is the alternative spelling of cleg.

Meaning of cleg

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

Noun (2)

cleg (plural clegs)

  1. (dialectal) A light breeze.

Proper noun capitalized: Clegg

Clegg (countable and uncountable, plural Cleggs)

  1. A surname.
    • In previous years Penryn Town Council has used Falmouth Town Council to fulfil the parks contract and glyphosate had been used, councillor Debra Clegg confirmed.2026 January 14, Lisa Young, “Council delays decision about weedkiller use”, in BBC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2026
  2. An unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina, United States.

Forms of clegg

Noun
pluralcleggs
Proper noun
pluralCleggs

Words formed from clegg

Questions about clegg

What does clegg mean?
Clegg means a surname.
What is clegg the alternative spelling of?
Clegg is the alternative spelling of cleg.
What part of speech is clegg?
Clegg is a proper noun.

Words near clegg in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clegg (page history and authors); Clegg (page history and authors); cleg (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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