gleg

[ gleg ]

adjectiveScot.
  1. quick; keen.

Origin of gleg

1
1250–1300; Middle English <Old Norse gløggr; cognate with Old English glēaw,Old Saxon, Old High German glau wise; akin to glow

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How to use gleg in a sentence

  • We were unco gleg to win hame when a' this was dune, an' after steekin' the door, to sit an' birsle oor taes at the bit blaze.

  • He's as gleg as M'Keachen's elshin, that ran through sax plies o' bend-leather into the king's heel.

    The Proverbs of Scotland | Alexander Hislop
  • Any boy more 'gleg at the uptak' would have met his parents half-way, and eased their burden.

    The Golden Age | Kenneth Grahame
  • Oh, Malcolm, I sat and marvelled at ye—so gleg ye took him up.

    The Caged Lion | Charlotte M. Yonge
  • A' the Morays are gleg, and yon marquis has an ee like a hawk.'

    Robert Falconer | George MacDonald