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cleg.

a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/klɛɡ/
  1. a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid

    England · Scotland · dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”); compare Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).

noun/klɛɡ/
  1. A light breeze.

    dialectal
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