cleck
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛk
Verb
cleck (third-person singular simple present clecks, present participle clecking, simple past and past participle clecked)
- (chiefly Scotland, transitive) To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 46:
- Poor he might be, but the creature wasn't yet clecked that might put on its airs with him, John Guthrie.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 46:
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