cleg

/klɛɡ/

noun 2

Collocations

Definitions

noun

a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid

Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.

Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.

noun

A light breeze.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various a

horsefly
clegg

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.

Wiktionary

Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the glegs biting through hair and hide

Wiktionary

The clegs continue to swarm all around. I wonder how many there are.[…]Remaining seated on the block, I seize clegs out of the surrounding air at random, and with scissors cut out a tiny triangle from

Wiktionary

Usage Notes

Your note

not saved

0 chars