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单词 cleg
释义 cleg Now Sc. and dial.|klɛg|
Also 5 clege, 6 clegge, 7–9 clegg.
[a. ON. kleggi, mod.Norw. klegg.]
A gadfly, horse-fly, or breeze.
a1449W. Bower in Fordun's Scotichron. (1759) II. 376 The unlatit woman..pungis as the cleg.1483Cath. Angl. 66 A Clege.1570Levins Manip. 53 A clegge, flée, solipunga.1656Burton's Diary (1828) I. 308 Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 936 The English [call it] a Burrel-fly, Stowt, and Breese: and also of sticking and clinging, Cleg and Clinger.1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Clegs, the large grey flies which torment horses and cattle in summer. ‘He sticks like a cleg.’1872Daily News 24 Aug., For animals of their size, ‘clegs’ are exceedingly light-footed.
b. Comb., as cleg-stung adj.
1808Mayne Siller Gun in Pop. Poems Scotl. (1862) 136 Like cattle prodit with a prong, Or cleg-stung fillies.
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