cleg – English noun declension

English noun forms of cleg

Noun: cleg
Singularcleg
Pluralclegs

Sample Sentences

  • Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum. [1657, Thomas Burton, Diary, section I:]
  • 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. [1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39:]
  • The clegs continue to swarm all around. I wonder how many there are.[…]Remaining seated on the block, I seize clegs out of the surrounding air at random, and with scissors cut out a tiny triangle from the rear edge of each one's right wing before releasing it. [1998, V. K. Riabitsev, One Season in the Taiga, page 138:]
  • Cattle were grazing languidly on the lush grass and flicking their tails to keep away the clegs that constantly plagued them and, having recently suffered a nasty bite from one, I was wary of them myself. [2007, John T. Wright, An Evacuee's Story: A North Yorkshire Family in Wartime, page 361:]
  • 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. [2011, Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath, page 49:]

Etymology

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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'clege', Old Norse Nouns 'kleggi', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'klegg', Ancient Greek Nouns 'γλωχίς'.

Verbs referencing "cleg"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns klegg, Ancient Greek Nouns γλωχίς.