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Fleck vs Cleck - What's the difference?

fleck | cleck |

As an adjective fleck

is fledged, full-fledged.

As a verb cleck is

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

fleck

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flake
  • A lock, as of wool.
  • A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  • * Longfellow
  • A sunny fleck .
  • * Tennyson
  • Life is dashed with flecks of sin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark with small spots
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • 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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