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English
Etymology
From Scots claik, from Old Norse klaka.
Pronunciation
Verb
claik (third-person singular simple present claiks, present participle claiking, simple past and past participle claiked)
- (Scotland) To honk or cry like a goose.
Noun
claik (plural claiks)
- (Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.
- (Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 79:you might hide with your lass on the top of Ben Nevis and have your bit pleasure there, but ten to one when you got up to go home there'd be Mistress Munro or some claik of her kidney, near sniggering herself daft with delight at your shame.
- The barnacle goose.
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse klaka, from or related to Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to cluck”).
Pronunciation
Noun
claik (plural claiks)
- honk (of a goose)
- gossip
- barnacle goose