gley
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɡleɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology 1[edit]
1920s, from Ukrainian глей (hlej, “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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Noun[edit]
gley (plural gleys)
- (soil science) A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
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Translations[edit]
type of soil
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Verb[edit]
gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleying, simple past and past participle gleyed)
- (soil science) To be converted into this kind of soil.
References[edit]
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “глей”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
Etymology 2[edit]
From Scots.
Verb[edit]
gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleying, simple past and past participle gleyed)
- (Scotland) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
- 1800, Banffshire:
- “Muckle lang gleyed Sanny Fite,” shouted the stranger
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Scots[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleyin, simple past gleyed, past participle gleyed)
- to squint
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