gley
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gley
1925–30; < Ukrainian gleĭ clayey earth; cognate with Byelorussian, Russian dialect gleĭ, Serbo-Croatian glêj; akin to clay
Example Sentences
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"It may be so, my good Sir Joseph, it may be so, and yet, even when I am most hopeful of success, my schemes go a gley."
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
And here—though maybe it was just my thought—the body stroked his chin, and gave me a kind of half gley, as much as saying, “take that to ye, neighbour.”
From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Charles Martin Hardie
There's a time to gley and a time to look straught.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Undoubtedly a Scand. loan-word, i>ei as in gleit, gley.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
Princie, as he ca'd him, ga'e a gley roond wi' the white o' his e'e that garred Sandy keep a gude yaird clear o' him.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
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