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Cleck vs Pleck - What's the difference?

cleck | pleck |

As a verb cleck

is (chiefly|scotland) to hatch (of birds); colloquially , of people, to be born.

As a noun pleck is

a plot of ground.

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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    pleck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plot of ground.