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▪ I. fleg, n.1 Sc.|flɛg|
[f. fleg v.1]
A fright, scare. Cf. fley n.
1721Ramsay Richy & Sandy 9 Or has some Bogle-bo..gi'en ye a fleg. 1818Scott Rob Roy xviii, ‘I got a fleg, and was ready to jump out o' my skin.’
▪ II. fleg, n.2 Sc.|flɛg|
[Onomatopœic; cf. fling.]
A random blow or kick, a stroke.
1722Hamilton Wallace III. i. (1822) 45 He..Syn at the loon a fearfull Fleg let flee, That from his Rumple shear'd away his Thigh. 1785Burns Epist. to J. Lapraik 21 Apr. ix, She's [Fortune's] gien me mony a jirt, an' fleg.
▪ III. fleg, v.1 Sc.|flɛg|
[The normal Sc. form of OE. flecᵹan to put to flight, of which one example is known, if the reading of the MS. be correct. If not an error for fléᵹan (see fley v.), it may perh. be a variant of that word, with abnormal doubled palatal and shortening of the vowel, as in reccan to reck, var. of récan (:—*rôkjan).]
trans. To frighten, scare.
1724Ramsay Gent. Shep. iv. i, We'll fleg him sae, he'll mint nae mair to gang A conjuring to do a lassie wrang. 1889Barrie Wind. Thrums xv. 141 ‘That was strong language’, said Hendry, ‘but he would be wantin’ to fleg her?’
▪ IV. fleg, v.2 Sc.|flɛg|
[? var. of flag v., fleck v.2]
intr. To flee, run off; to fly away. Also with off.
1789Davidson Seasons 25 [The lambs] round a tammock wheel, an', fleggin, toss The moudy-hillan to the air in stoor. Ibid. 76 Nelly..aff wi' Gib the Mason Flegg'd fast, that day. 1893Stevenson Catriona 170 ‘The solan..flegged aff about the roundness of the craig.’
▪ V. fleg(h)
obs. pa. tense of flee v.; Sc. var. of flea. |