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bleg
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bl??/
Etymology 1
Unknown
Noun
bleg (plural blegs)
- (Northumbria) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).
- 2007, Jack Melton, "Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem", Sunderland Echo, 4 July 2007:
- Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)
- 2007, "Sea Angling latest", Sunderland Echo, 7 November 2007:
- Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.
- 2008, "Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up", Sunderland Echo, 29 May 2008:
- The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs.
- 2009, "Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open", Sunderland Echo, 10 December 2010:
- Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg.
- 2007, Jack Melton, "Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem", Sunderland Echo, 4 July 2007:
Etymology 2
Blend of blog +? beg. Anglo-American writer John Derbyshire claims to have coined this word in 2002, although earlier usage may have occurred.
Noun
bleg (plural blegs)
- (Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
- I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
- 2008, Andrew Sullivan, "The Utter Arrogance Of It", The Atlantic, 29 August 2008:
- Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?
- 2010, James Wolcott, "A Grammer of Motives*", Vanity Fair, 9 September 2010:
- Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.
- 2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Regnery Publishing, Inc. (2012), ?ISBN, page 267 (acknowledgments section):
- This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find; […]
Verb
bleg (third-person singular simple present blegs, present participle blegging, simple past and past participle blegged)
- (Internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
- That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
- 2008, "Strange looks and funny lines from the past week", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 18 May 2008:
- The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
- 2009, John J. Miller, "Novels of the Right, cont.", National Review Online, 30 November 2009:
- About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].
- 2009, Curtis Brainard, "It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…", Columbia Journalism Review, 7 August 2009:
- Zimmer had "blegged" (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."
- 2010, Iain Murray, "Chicagoan Voting System!", National Review Online, 15 April 2010:
- Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.
References
Anagrams
- Belg.
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse bleikr, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Related to blege.
Adjective
bleg
- pale, pallid
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
bleg
- imperative of blege
Romanian
Etymology
Possibly from a derivative of Common Slavic *bolg? (“good”) (compare Serbo-Croatian blag), or Serbo-Croatian blek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ble?/
Adjective
bleg m or n (feminine singular bleag?, masculine plural blegi, feminine and neuter plural blege)
- soft, shy, silly, dull, weak, foolish, sheepish
- (of ears, usually animals) going down, droopy
Declension
Scots
Alternative forms
- bleget
Etymology
From Old Norse bleikr.
Adjective
bleg
- (of colour) Light and drab, esp. of (wool of) sheep.
References
- https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/bleg_adj
bleg From the web:
cleg
English
Alternative forms
- clegg
- gleg
Etymology
From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gl?g?-s (“point”); compare with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg, Ancient Greek ?????? (gl?khís, “barb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
cleg (plural clegs)
- (now dialectal) A light breeze.
- (Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
- 1657, Thomas Burton, Diary, I,
- Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 39,
- Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.
- 2011, Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath, page 49,
- Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for.
- 1657, Thomas Burton, Diary, I,
Synonyms
- (blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae): blind-fly (Central Africa), deer fly (genus Chrysops), gadfly, horsefly, tabanid
References
- “cleg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1144
Anagrams
- CGEL
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