Etymology

cleck

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Today it means: To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person). Full definition →

Scots cleck ← Old Norse klekja
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromklekja
  2. Scots · borrowed fromcleck
  3. English todaycleck

From Scots cleck, from Old Norse klekja.

Words from the same roots

Old Norseklekja all →

clutch

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.