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Definition: GLEY |
GLEYAdverb1. Asquint; askance; obliquely. Intransitive verb1. To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. |
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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: GLEY |
| Non-English Usage: "GLEY" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (unclouded, unclouded of liquid). |
Expression using "GLEY": humic gley soil. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "GLEY": a-gley. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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). | |
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. | |
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