different between cleg vs clag
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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clag
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
clag (uncountable)
- A glue or paste made from starch.
- Low cloud, fog or smog.
- 2001, Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman
- This programme included practice interceptions, simulator training, day flying, night flying, clag flying -- in addition to […] [a footnote states that clag flying was Air Force slang for foul weather flying.]
- 2004, David A. Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An Autobiography
- We went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity [a footnote defines clag as low cloud cover]
- 2001, Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman
- (railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
- (motor racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (c.f marbles).
- He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.
Derived terms
- claggy
Verb
clag (third-person singular simple present clags, present participle clagging, simple past and past participle clagged)
- (obsolete) To encumber
- c1620:Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
- As when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruite
- 1725: Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations
- Can such draw to me/My stund affections all with Cinders clag'd
- c1620:Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
- To stick, like boots in mud
- 1999: "A queen of a Santee kitchen, pre-war", quoted by Mary Alston Read Simms in the Introduction to Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909
- Wash the rice well in two waters, if you don't wash 'em, 'e will clag [clag means get sticky] and put 'em in a pot of well-salted boiling water.
- 1999: "A queen of a Santee kitchen, pre-war", quoted by Mary Alston Read Simms in the Introduction to Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909
Anagrams
- GLAC
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish cloc.
Noun
clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)
- bell
Derived terms
- shamyr chluig, thie cluig (“belfry”)
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish cloc.
Noun
clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)
- bell
Derived terms
- beum-cluig
Mutation
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