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Cleg

//klɛɡ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A light breeze. dialectal
  2. 2
    large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals wordnet
  3. 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."

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”).

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