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gley

Pronunciation: /ɡleɪ/

The English word “gley” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.

verb

  1. To be converted into this kind of soil.
  2. To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.

Etymology

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.

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