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clegs

clegs is the plural 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.

Questions about clegs

What is clegs the plural of?
Clegs is the plural of cleg.

Words near clegs in the dictionary

  1. clegg
  2. Cleggmania
  3. cleggs
  4. Cleghorn
  5. Cleghorns
  6. clegs
  7. cleid-
  8. cleidal
  9. cleido-
  10. cleidocostal
  11. cleidocranial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clegs (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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