cleg

(klɛɡ)

(Animals) another name for a horsefly, esp one of the genus Haematopota

[C15: from Old Norse kleggi]

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Noun

cleg - large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals

clegg, horse fly, horsefly

gadfly - any of various large flies that annoy livestock

family Tabanidae, Tabanidae - horseflies

Translations

cleg

[kleg] N → tábano m

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`twarn't for crows then, for it brought the clegs and the dowps to him.

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ANIMALS, INSECTS AND BIRDS: cleck 'to hatch', cleg 'a gadfly, horse-fly', cloe 'to claw', gait 'a boar, hog', gimmer 'a kind of a ewe', ginners 'the gills of a fish', hagworm 'an adder or viper', inmeat 'the internal parts or viscera of an animal which are used for food', lop 'a flea', maw 'a gull', mawk 'a maggot', rawn/rown 'the roe of a fish', skite 'to void excrement', steg 'a gander', tyke 'a dog, a mongrel', waithing 'fishing', yure 'an udder';

Scandinavian loanwords in English in the 15th century (1)

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