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noun
A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: soil science
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verb
To be converted into this kind of soil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: soil science
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verb
To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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History
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.
Borrowed from Scots.
Across languages
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