claik
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kleɪk/
Verb
claik (third-person singular simple present claiks, present participle claiking, simple past and past participle claiked)
Noun
claik (plural claiks)
- (Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.
- (Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 79:
- you might hide with your lass on the top of Ben Nevis and have your bit pleasure there, but ten to one when you got up to go home there'd be Mistress Munro or some claik of her kidney, near sniggering herself daft with delight at your shame.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 79:
- The barnacle goose.
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klek/
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