claik

present singular third person claiks · participle present claiking · participle past claiked · past claiked

1. ScotlandTo honk or cry like a goose.

plural claiks

1. ScotlandThe cry of a goose, or other bird.
2. ScotlandGossip; a gossip.

   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 (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 79

3. The barnacle goose.