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gleg

/ɡlɛɡ/

gleg verb: to glance. Also the alternative form of cleg.

Verb

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

  1. (Northern England) To glance.
    Synonyms:
    glance

Noun

gleg (plural glegs)

  1. (Northern England, archaic) A look or glance.
    • And besides, you'd do the tomb so well. Everybody feels as if they want a gleg at the skeleton in your vault.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

Adjective

gleg (comparative glegger, superlative gleggest)

  1. (Scotland) Smart; quick; brisk.
    • One patted her neck, and assured her she was the gleggest and bonniest young thing she had ever seen.1856, Thomas Hamilton, The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, page 279

Also used as

gleg is also the alternative form of cleg.

Synonyms of gleg

Forms of gleg

Verb
third-person singular presentglegs
present participleglegging
past participleglegged
pastglegged
Noun
pluralglegs
Adjective
comparativeglegger
superlativegleggest

Origin of gleg

Variant forms.

Words formed from gleg

Words that rhyme with gleg

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Questions about gleg

What does gleg mean?
Gleg means to glance.
What part of speech is gleg?
Gleg can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce gleg?
Gleg is pronounced /ɡlɛɡ/.
What is the past tense of gleg?
The past tense of gleg is glegged.

Words near gleg in the dictionary

  1. gleeting
  2. gleets
  3. gleety
  4. gleewoman
  5. gleewomen
  6. gleg
  7. glegged
  8. glegger
  9. gleggest
  10. glegging
  11. Gleghorn

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