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Definition of cleg in English: clegnoun klɛɡklɛɡ British another term for horsefly Example sentencesExamples - The clegs were in good form tonight, and they were proving annoying so I sprayed on Skin So Soft.
- But most of the walk was a weary exercise in plodding along the old military road, warily eyeing up the murky clouds while midges attacked me and clegs took chunks out of my legs.
- The heat was great, and the clegs and other flying torments were having a grand time at our expense.
- He reminded his frantically puffing audience that smoking was a well-known antidote to the predations of the great horse fly, or cleg.
- On Sunday I was bitten three times by clegs.
- Usually they are called clegs, horse-flies or gad-flies, without referring to one specific species.
- It is, of course, the midges and the clegs who present the major problem to the Scottish naturist.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old Norse kleggi. Rhymes beg, egg, Eigg, Greg, keg, leg, Meg, peg, skeg, teg, yegg Definition of cleg in US English: clegnounkleɡklɛɡ British another term for horsefly Example sentencesExamples - But most of the walk was a weary exercise in plodding along the old military road, warily eyeing up the murky clouds while midges attacked me and clegs took chunks out of my legs.
- It is, of course, the midges and the clegs who present the major problem to the Scottish naturist.
- He reminded his frantically puffing audience that smoking was a well-known antidote to the predations of the great horse fly, or cleg.
- Usually they are called clegs, horse-flies or gad-flies, without referring to one specific species.
- The heat was great, and the clegs and other flying torments were having a grand time at our expense.
- On Sunday I was bitten three times by clegs.
- The clegs were in good form tonight, and they were proving annoying so I sprayed on Skin So Soft.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old Norse kleggi. |