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English
Etymology
From Scots cleck, from Old Norse klekja.
Pronunciation
Verb
cleck (third-person singular simple present clecks, present participle clecking, simple past and past participle clecked)
- (chiefly Scotland, transitive) To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46:Poor he might be, but the creature wasn't yet clecked that might put on its airs with him, John Guthrie.
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse klekja.
Verb
cleck (third-person singular simple present clecks, present participle cleckin, simple past cleckit, past participle cleckit)
- to hatch, to give birth to