Meanings
verbcleck (third-person singular simple present clecks, present participle clecking, simple past and past participle clecked)
present singular third person clecks · participle present clecking · participle past clecked · past clecked
- ScotlandtransitiveTo hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).
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 (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46
Origin
- Old Norseklekja
- Scotscleck
- Englishcleck
From Scots cleck, from Old Norse klekja.
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Rhymes with cleck
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MLA
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Chicago
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