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Cleck vs Clerk - What's the difference?

cleck | clerk |

As verbs the difference between cleck and clerk

is that cleck is (chiefly|scotland) to hatch (of birds); colloquially , of people, to be born while clerk is to act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.

As a noun clerk is

one who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc; an office worker.

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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    clerk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks , however, understood him very well.
  • A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
  • (lb) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk ).
  • *1595 , (William Shakespeare), ,
  • *:God save the King! Will no man say, amen? / Am I both priest and clerk ? Well then, amen.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
  • The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.