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Lerky vs Clerky - What's the difference?

lerky | clerky |

As a noun lerky

is (uk|nottinghamshire) a variation of the kick the can game.

As an adjective clerky is

clerklike; clerkish.

lerky

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, Nottinghamshire) A variation of the kick the can game.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:She raced wildly at lerky with the other young wild-cats of the Bottoms.

    • clerky

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • clerklike; clerkish
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Wireless
    • Returning, he took from his desk Christie's New Commercial Plants and the old Culpepper that I had given him, opened and laid them side by side with a clerky air, all trace of passion gone from his face, read first in one and then in the other, and paused with pen behind his ear.