See gleg on Wiktionary
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"14": "",
"2": "adjective",
"3": "comparative",
"4": "mair gleg",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "superlative"
},
"expansion": "gleg (comparative mair gleg, superlative maist gleg)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "gleg (comparative mair gleg, superlative maist gleg)",
"name": "sco-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"smart, quick, brisk"
],
"links": [
[
"smart",
"smart"
],
[
"quick",
"quick"
],
[
"brisk",
"brisk"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Requests for translations of Scots quotations",
"Scots terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "1836 Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft. Act 1. p13.\n'When she begins to mutter wi' her white wuthered lips, and her twa gleg eyen are glowering like glints o' wildfire frae the hollow o' her dark bent brows, she 's enough to mak a trooper quake; ay, wi' baith swurd and pistol by his side.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alert, quick-witted, keen in sight, hearing, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"alert",
"alert"
],
[
"quick-witted",
"quick-witted"
],
[
"keen",
"keen"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"intelligent, adroit, skilful"
],
"links": [
[
"intelligent",
"intelligent"
],
[
"adroit",
"adroit"
],
[
"skilful",
"skilful"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"sharp"
],
"links": [
[
"sharp",
"sharp"
]
],
"qualifier": "points; etc; points; etc",
"raw_glosses": [
"(of blades, points, etc) sharp"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of blades"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Nicoline van der Sijs"
],
"word": "gleg"
}
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