fleg

English

Noun

fleg (plural flegs) (Northern Ireland, humorous)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of flag, representing Ulster English.
  2. (by extension) The Union Flag.
    • 2013, 7:38 from the start, in The Blame Game, season 7, episode 2, Jake O'Kane (actor):
      Six weeks of mayhem, because the people who love this flag are going "They've taken my fleg! They've taken my identity! I don't know who I am any more!"

Scots

Noun

fleg (plural flegs)

  1. fright
    • 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns‎[1]:
      She 's gien me mony a jirt an' fleg, Sin' I could striddle owre a rig; But, by the Lord, tho' I should beg Wi' lyart pow, I'll laugh an' sing, an' shake my leg, As lang's I dow!
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