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noun
a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: England, Scotland, dialectal
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A light breeze.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: horsefly, clegg, horse fly
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gadfly
History
From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgh-s (“point”); compare Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).
