GLEY

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GLEY

Definition: GLEY

GLEY

Adverb

1. Asquint; askance; obliquely.

Intransitive verb

1. To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GLEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

"GLEY" is a common misspelling or typo for: agley, galley, gel, glary, glazy, glee, glen, gluey.

 

Specialty Definition: GLEY

DomainDefinition

Geography

A)any soil layer or material of a grey colour, generally more or less mottled or streaked with yellow, orange or rusty brown, and subjected to periodic waterlogging, the coloration being commonly ascribed to oxidation and reduction of Fe compounds during alternating phases of aeration and saturation; b)sometimes restricted to blue-grey soil layers that are under the influence of groundwater for long periods; soils so affected may show some rust-brown mottling or streaking, in upper layers liable to some oxidation when the water table is low. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: GLEY

Non-English Usage: "GLEY" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (unclouded, unclouded of liquid).

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Expression: GLEY

Expression using "GLEY": humic gley soil. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "GLEY": a-gley.

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Modern Translation: GLEY

Language Translations for "GLEY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

gley (glei). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pseudogley (gley-like soil), humus-gley-grond (humic gley soil). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

glei (glei). (various references)

   

French

  

gley (glei). (various references)

   

German

  

Pseudogley (gley-like soil), Humus-Gleyboden (humic gley soil). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υγρός σιδηρούχος ορίζων εμφράξεως (glei). (various references)

   

Italian

  

gley (glei). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eyglay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

hidromorfismo (glei). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gley (glei). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gley (glei). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: GLEY

Derivations

Words beginning with "GLEY": gleyed, gleying, gleyings, gleys. (additional references)

Words ending with "GLEY": agley, langley. (additional references)

Words containing "GLEY": langleys. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: GLEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-l-y"

-1 letter: gel, gey, leg, ley, lye.

-2 letters: el, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-l-y"
 

+1 letter: agley, elegy, gleys, gluey, ledgy, leggy.

 

+2 letters: agedly, argyle, clergy, edgily, eulogy, fledgy, galley, gamely, gently, gleamy, gleety, glegly, gleyed, greyly, gulley, hugely, legacy, sagely.

 

+3 letters: agilely, allergy, angerly, argyles, belying, eagerly, ecology, enology, fleying, gallery, galleys, gelidly, gemmily, geology, gingely, gleying, glycine, goldeye, gravely, greatly, greenly, greylag, guayule, gulleys, guyline, gyplure, haylage, langley, largely, legally, legibly, lengthy, levying, lysogen, neology, phlegmy, plaguey, regally, relying, teughly, thegnly, vaguely, yealing, yelling, yelping.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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