gley
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
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- 4
Definition of gley
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
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noun
- A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
verb
- To be converted into this kind of soil.
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(Scotland)To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
““Muckle lang gleyed Sanny Fite,” shouted the stranger”
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Etymology
1920s, from Ukrainian ґлей (glej, “clayey soil”), from Proto-Slavic *glьjь, from Proto-Indo-European *gl̥h₁y-ó-s, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-. Cognate of clay.
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