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Bleg vs Cleg - What's the difference?

bleg | cleg |

As nouns the difference between bleg and cleg

is that bleg is a pouting (Trisopterus luscus) while cleg is a light breeze.

As a verb bleg

is to create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.

bleg

English

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Northeast England) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus ).
  • * 2007 , Jack Melton, " Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem", Sunderland Echo , 4 July 2007:
    • Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg )
  • * 2007 , " Sea Angling latest", Sunderland Echo , 7 November 2007:
    • Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs ) on squid.
  • * 2008 , " Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up", Sunderland Echo , 29 May 2008:
    • The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs .
  • * 2009 , " Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open", Sunderland Echo , 10 December 2010:
    • Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg .

    Etymology 2

    .Ben Zimmer, " Web]", The New York Times'', 11 November 2010 Anglo-American writer claims to have coined this word in 2002,John Derbyshire, "[http://old.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire080102.asp July Diary", ''National Review Online , 1 August 2002 although earlier usage may have occurred.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
    • I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
  • * 2008 , Andrew Sullivan, " The Utter Arrogance Of It", The Atlantic , 29 August 2008:
    • Here's a bleg : can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?
  • * 2010 , James Wolcott, " A Grammer of Motives*", Vanity Fair , 9 September 2010:
    • Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.
  • * 2012 , Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After , Regnery Publishing, Inc. (2012), ISBN 9781596987845, page 267 (acknowledgments section):
    • This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find;

    Verb

    (blegg)
  • (internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
    • That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
  • * 2008 , "Strange looks and funny lines from the past week", Atlanta Journal-Constitution , 18 May 2008:
    • The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
  • * 2009 , John J. Miller, " Novels of the Right, cont.", National Review Online , 30 November 2009:
    • About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].
  • * 2009 , Curtis Brainard, " It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…", Columbia Journalism Review , 7 August 2009:
    • Zimmer had "blegged " (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."
  • * 2010 , Iain Murray, " Chicagoan Voting System!", National Review Online , 15 April 2010:
    • Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.

    References

    English blends ----

    cleg

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gleg

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light breeze.
  • A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
  • * 1657 , , Diary , I,
    • Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg , and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum .
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 39,
    • Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs' and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the ' glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.
  • * 1998 , V. K. Riabitsev, Once Season in the Taiga , page 138,
    • The clegs' continue to swarm all around. I wonder how many there are.Remaining seated on the block, I seize ' clegs out of the surrounding air at random, and with scissors cut out a tiny triangle from the rear edge of each one's right wing before releasing it.
  • * 2007 , John T. Wright, An Evacuee's Story: A North Yorkshire Family in Wartime , page 361,
    • Cattle were grazing languidly on the lush grass and flicking their tails to keep away the clegs that constantly plagued them and, having recently suffered a nasty bite from one, I was wary of them myself.
  • * 2011 , Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath , page 49,
    • Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for.

    Synonyms

    * (blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae) blind-fly (Central Africa), deer fly (genus Chrysops), gadfly, horsefly, tabanid

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