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gley

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4 lettersPronunciation /ɡleɪ/Sorted eglyStarts with GEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • “Muckle lang gleyed Sanny Fite,” shouted the stranger

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