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Cleck vs Sleck - What's the difference?

cleck | sleck |

As verbs the difference between cleck and sleck

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

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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    sleck

    English

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • :to sleck lime
  • (label) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
  • (label) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.

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