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Cleek vs Cleck - What's the difference?

cleek | cleck |

In chiefly scotland terms the difference between cleek and cleck

is that cleek is a large hook while cleck is to hatch (of birds); colloquially, of people, to be born.

As a noun cleek

is a large hook.

As a verb cleck is

to hatch (of birds); colloquially, of people, to be born.

cleek

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A large hook.
  • (golf, dated) A metal headed golf club with little loft. Equivalent to a one or two iron a modern set of clubs.
  • *1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 58:
  • *:He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.
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    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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