Cleg
/klɛɡ/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A light breeze. dialectal
- 2 large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals wordnet
- 3 A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly. England, Scotland, dialectal
"Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum."
Synonyms
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More examples"Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum."
Etymology
From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”); compare with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg, Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).