gleg
[gleg]
- quick; keen.
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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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Historical Examples
And they warna lost upon her, for she had aye a gleg ee for a horse.
Heather and SnowGeorge MacDonald
Oh, Malcolm, I sat and marvelled at ye—so gleg ye took him up.
The Caged LionCharlotte M. Yonge
A' the Morays are gleg, and yon marquis has an ee like a hawk.'
Robert FalconerGeorge MacDonald
He's as gleg as M'Keachen's elshin, that ran through sax plies o' bend-leather into the king's heel.
The Proverbs of ScotlandAlexander Hislop
Any boy more 'gleg at the uptak' would have met his parents half-way, and eased their burden.
The Golden AgeKenneth Grahame