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单词 gleg at
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gleg at
2. Quick in action or movement; sharp, smart. gleg at, quick or clever at (doing something); gleg at (of) the uptake, quick in understanding a thing; gleg at or with, quick or clever in using.
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1755 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Clerk 46 When interest points, he's gleg and gare, And will at naithing stop or stand.
1773 R. Fergusson Poems 91 He's a man weel vers'd in a' the laws..An' ay right gleg..At sattlin o' a nice or kittle point.
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xix. 288 He's gleg aneuch at the broadsword and target. View more context for this quotation
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 156 Every body's no sae gleg at the uptake as ye are yoursel, mither.
1821 J. Galt Ayrshire Legatees x. 286 The drivers were so gleg and impudent, that it was worse than martyrdom to come with them.
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. ix. 179 He was ower gleg in the tongue for ye.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘Quite gleg at it’, quick at comprehending it. ‘Gleg at walking’. ‘Gleg at eating’.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xx. 193 Ye're no very gleg at the jumping.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders vii. 72 Gleg wi' the knife as a souter wi' his elshin.
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