gleby
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From glebe + -y. Compare Latin glaebosus (“cloddy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gleby (comparative more gleby, superlative most gleby)
- (obsolete) turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- Pernicious flattery! thy malignant seeds
In an ill hour, and by fatal hand
Sadly diffus'd o'er virtue's gleby land,
With rising pride amidst the corn appear,
And choke the hopes and harvest of the year.
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “gleby”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gleby
- inflection of gleba:
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