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gleg
[ gleg ]
adjective
, Scot.
- quick; keen.
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Example Sentences
We were unco gleg to win hame when a' this was dune, an' after steekin' the door, to sit an' birsle oor taes at the bit blaze.
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He's as gleg as M'Keachen's elshin, that ran through sax plies o' bend-leather into the king's heel.
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Any boy more 'gleg at the uptak' would have met his parents half-way, and eased their burden.
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Oh, Malcolm, I sat and marvelled at ye—so gleg ye took him up.
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A' the Morays are gleg, and yon marquis has an ee like a hawk.'
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