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Cleck vs Clack - What's the difference?

cleck | clack |

As verbs the difference between cleck and clack

is that cleck is (chiefly|scotland) to hatch (of birds); colloquially , of people, to be born while clack is to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

As a noun clack is

an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk.

cleck

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) To hatch (of birds); colloquially , of people, to be born.
  • *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.
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    clack

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk
  • Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
  • chatter; prattle
  • * South
    • Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack .

    Derived terms

    * clack box * clack dish * clack door * clack valve

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • * Thackeray
    • We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
  • To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
    • (Feltham)
  • (UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.