# cleg

> English word · Noun · IPA /klɛɡ/

## Definitions
1. a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid

## Etymology
From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”); compare Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cleg