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
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“And is the young lady of the same mind?” quoth my Lord, with a quick, gleg slyness.
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"A'm no' sae gleg on the subject o' sin as some fowk I ken."
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
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
If there's a' sough o' cholera, Or typhus,—wha sae gleg as she?
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
"I said the good-wife was gleg; I'm just as gleg myself."
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
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