Cleck vs Cluck - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between cleck and cluck

is that cleck is (chiefly|scotland) to hatch (of birds); colloquially , of people, to be born while cluck is to make such a sound.

the sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

(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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(en noun)

The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

Any sound similar to this.

A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.

(en verb)

To make such a sound.

To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

* Shakespeare

She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, / Has clucked three to the wars.

to suffer withdrawal from heroin.