gleg
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gleg
1250–1300; Middle English < Old Norse gløggr; cognate with Old English glēaw, Old Saxon, Old High German glau wise; akin to glow
Example Sentences
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A thief sae pawkie is my Jean, sly To steal a blink, by a' unseen; glance But gleg as light are lovers' e'en, nimble, eyes When kind love is in the e'e.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
I have known you more gleg at the uptake, but if you will call on me to-morrow night I shall make all plain to you.”
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
And then the changes," said Geordie, "hae ta'en awa the auld folk whase gleg een would hae noticed it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
And the last was all life, as gleg as an eel.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
She chose instead Miss Aline who had the gleg eye of the old maid, and a memory sharpened with forty years of "knowing jeely pots by head mark."
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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