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glegs

glegs is the plural of gleg.

Meaning of gleg

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

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Questions about glegs

What is glegs the plural of?
Glegs is the plural of gleg.

Words near glegs in the dictionary

  1. glegging
  2. Gleghorn
  3. Gleghorns
  4. glegly
  5. glegness
  6. glegs
  7. glei
  8. Gleich
  9. Gleich's syndrome
  10. gleichenia
  11. gleicheniaceous

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