gledgev.
/ɡlɛdʒ/, U.S. /ɡlɛdʒ/, Scottish English /ɡlɛdʒ/ Scottish.
intransitive. ‘To look asquint, to take a side view; to look cunningly and slily on one side’ (Jamieson).
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1805 A. Scott Poems 56 (Jam.) Here cautious love maun gledge a-squint, And stounlins feast the ee.
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 74 The corby craw cam gledgin near, The ern gede veeryng bye.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 290 Let them be gentles allenarly, without ony fremd servants..to be gledging and gleeing about.
Derivatives
gledge n. a side-glance; a sly look.
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1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 177 He gae a gledge wi' his e'e, that I kenn'd he took up what I said.
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