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gleg

[ gleg ]

adjective

Scot.
  1. quick; keen.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gleg1

1250–1300; Middle English < Old Norse gløggr; cognate with Old English glēaw, Old Saxon, Old High German glau wise; akin to glow
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Example Sentences

While in the US, she had a daughter, Diana Davis, who competed at Beijing 2022 in the ice dance, finishing 14th along with Gleg Smolkin.

From BBC

And much good that'll do him with the parsons and such like, as are all gleg together!

And then the changes," said Geordie, "hae ta'en awa the auld folk whase gleg een would hae noticed it.

The wa's are thin and ears are gleg.

There, solitary and in the gloom, sat the creature of the prior century, whose birth could only be arrived at by going through generations back ninety and five years before; but not gloom to her, to whom the light of memory was as a necromancer, arraying before the gleg eye of her spirit the images of persons and things and circumstances of the far past, with all the vividness of enchantment, and still even raising again those very loves and sympathies they elicited when they were of the passing hour.

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