cleg

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid England,Scotland,dialectal
    — Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.
  2. A light breeze. dialectal

词形变化

clegs plural clegg alternative gleg alternative clegs plural clegg alternative gleg alternative

词源

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”).
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