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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"A'm no' sae gleg on the subject o' sin as some fowk I ken."
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
"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
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
If there's a' sough o' cholera, Or typhus,—wha sae gleg as she?
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Hadst thou taen’ aff some drowsy bummle Wha can do nought but fyke and fumble, ’Twad been nae plea, But he was gleg as onie wumble, That’s owre the sea!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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