gleg

Definitions

Examples

• We were unco gleg to win hame when a' this was dune, an' after steekin' the door, to sit an' birsle oor taes at the bit blaze.

• He's as gleg as M'Keachen's elshin, that ran through sax plies o' bend-leather into the king's heel.

• Any boy more 'gleg at the uptak' would have met his parents half-way, and eased their burden.

• Oh, Malcolm, I sat and marvelled at ye—so gleg ye took him up.

• A' the Morays are gleg, and yon marquis has an ee like a hawk.'