glaggen noun the sheen over a field or moor: The flax was till in flower when we arrived at the farm: a beautiful sea of blue with glaggen’s slivery waves almost blinding me as I gazed across the field. 20-. etymology: Shetlandic glagg, klagg, klegg ‘an adhesive mass, mire’; perhaps connected with Scots adective, claggy; attested by BW |